Ira Spitzer discusses Xavier Bettel and Boris Johnson's meeting

The Prime Minister of Luxembourg has called Brexit a "nightmare" and says it is up to the United Kingdom to find a way out of the impasse. Xavier Bettel was at a meeting with the British Prime Minister today and says Mr Johnson had failed to put forward any serious plans to allow a deal by 31 October. In response to Mr Bettel's criticism Mr Johnson claimed that "a lot of work" had been done on possible alternatives to the backstop. That work would now accelerate, he said: He also told reporters he could see the shape of a Brexit deal but it was not necessarily "in the bag". Our correspondent in Brussels is Ira Spitzer