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Theresa May pushes for Brexit progress at showdown Brussels supper

May wants negotiations to move on to the future relationship and will make her case over dinner for quicker progress at a Brussels summit

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Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May arrives at an EU summit in Brussels, Belgium. (Photo: Reuters)

Ian Wishart & Tim Ross | Bloomberg Brussels/London
UK Prime Minister Theresa May will demand that the European Union move Brexit talks on to trade in a face-to-face showdown with leaders. EU officials see a breakthrough as all but impossible.

May wants negotiations to move on to the future relationship and will make her case over dinner for quicker progress at a Brussels summit on Thursday. The EU says the UK hasn’t done enough to turn concessions May offered in Florence into concrete pledges on how much Britain will pay when it leaves.

The EU intends to postpone a decision on May’s key demand until December, and even then there’s