BRUSSELS: British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Friday that Brexit talks were making progress but that there were outstanding issues on the divorce settlement and the border with EU member Ireland.

After meeting European Council President Donald Tusk in Brussels, May described their discussion as positive and painted a picture where the two sides were edging towards agreement to move Brexit talks onto a discussion of future trade.

But shortly afterwards, Tusk again repeated that Britain had 10 days to deliver on all the major areas of the initial divorce talks, something he said on Twitter was “possible but still a huge challenge”.

May told reporters after their meetings: “There are still issues across the various matters that we are negotiating on to be resolved.”

Published in Dawn, November 25th, 2017