‘We’ll leave EU by Jan 31 next year’, says UK PM Boris Johnson
Earlier, UK PM Boris Johnson’s government had rejected the claims it was suppressing the report to avoid a scandal ahead of next month’s snap poll.
Earlier, UK PM Boris Johnson’s government had rejected the claims it was suppressing the report to avoid a scandal ahead of next month’s snap poll.
The US President also took a swipe at Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, saying he would be "so bad" as prime minister.
In a letter to EU officials, Johnson said the further three-month delay - which he insists was forced upon him by Parliament - was "unwanted".
The UK was due to leave the EU on Thursday, but Prime Minister Boris Johnson was required to request an extension from the bloc after Parliament, in a historic session on October 19, voted against his Brexit deal.
Johnson is opposed to delaying Britain's exit from the European Union a third time.
British Prime Minister Theresa May was among the EU leaders who gathered in Brussels to discuss the future leadership of the bloc, but Tusk said Brexit was not discussed.
France's minister for European affairs, Nathalie Loiseau, sounded the alarm bells in Brussels as Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May embarked on a lightning mini-tour of EU capitals to beg for support.
The UK is scheduled to leave the EU on March 29, 2019.
"We have always said Brexit is a lose-lose situation and these negotiations were always about damage control," Tusk said.
There has been no headway at the Brussels summit to break the impasse over the Irish border, indeed the critical…