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Brexit: Johnson tells Merkel 'we want a deal'

Name: Brexit: Johnson tells Merkel 'we want a deal'
Uploaded: 2019-08-21T18:44:01.700Z
Duration: 1 min 39 s
Channel: Financial Times
Description: The UK prime minister and German chancellor met in Berlin to discuss the UK's split from the EU

The German chancellor says the UK must come up with a solution in the next 30 days to the vexed issue of the Irish border

August 21, 2019

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BORIS JOHNSON: [? Chancellor ?] [? Merkel, ?] thank you so much for-- I just want to be absolutely clear with all our German friends and with the German government that we in the UK want a deal. We seek a deal. And I believe that we can get one. We can do it. "Wir schaffen das," I think is the phrase. But clearly-- but clearly, we cannot-- we cannot accept the current withdrawal agreement. Want to be absolutely clear.