Boris Johnson’s telephone diplomacy sets the stage for last-ditch talks in
Brussels this week to salvage a trade deal with the EU, front pages say
Boris Johnson’s “Brexit showdown” with officials in Brussels dominates most of the papers ahead of the summit expected this week between the prime minister and the European commission’s president, Ursula Von der Leyen.
After it emerged on Monday that the pair had talked on the phone for more than an hour without making much “tangible progress” on
BREAKING the trade impasse, the nascent Downing Street spin operation made sure the papers were supplied with a picture of Johnson talking on his landline.