French foreign minister threatens to veto Brexit delay – The Times, Thetimes.co.uk

Political chaos in Westminster and Boris Johnson’s failure to hold meaningful negotiations means that France will veto another delay to Brexit, the country’s foreign minister said.

Frustration is growing across Europe at the deepening political deadlock and brinkmanship in Britain combined with the prime minister’s failure to table an alternative to the Irish backstop.  

House of Commons legislation requires Johnson to ask for a new delay at an EU summit on October 17 by extending the Article 50 withdrawal process until January 31 next year.

Jean-Yves Le Drian, France’s foreign minister, said that President Macron would veto the request of an extension to Article 50 unless Britain changed political course.  

“In the current circumstances, it’s no,” he told French Europe1 radio. “We are not going…