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If you’d like to receive the briefing as a weekly email, please sign up here. Top stories So was it all just theatrics; a show designed to allow Theresa May to say she had fought to the very last? Only time will tell. The EU’s proposed solution is for Northern Ireland to in effect remain in the single market and customs union for as long as necessary, which the government has rejected. Instead, Britain has suggested that the whole country stays in a customs union with the EU, but for a limited time only – which the EU has rejected as both too complicated and (if only temporary) not good enough. At the same time, the DUP – on whose backing May’s majority relies – say the whole border issue is an “EU con trick” and are threatening to bring down the government if Brexit means Northern Ireland is treated differently from the rest of the UK. Politically, thanks to May’s weakness at home, it’s a long way off. The bloc had, however, demanded “maximum progress” on the border problem by this week as the price for a November summit at which a deal was to be formally signed off. That could now become a “no-deal” summit to address the consequences of the UK crashing out of the bloc. For the time being, EU diplomats appear relatively relaxed about this possibility and are prepared – up to a point – to wait and see whether May can sell her Brexit plan at home.

Johnson quit just hours after Brexit Secretary David Davis stepped down; the two men said they could not support Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plan. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news…