Boris Johnson will hold Brexit talks with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in Luxembourg on Monday, Downing Street has confirmed.
The "working lunch" will be the pair's first face-to-face meeting since the Prime Minister entered Downing Street in July.
It comes as Ireland's Premier Leo Varadkar warned of a "very wide gap" between London and the UK on the issue of the Irish backstop.
Thee Prime Minister, who is visiting Yorkshire today, told one Doncaster trader "we're going to get a deal".
"That's the plan anyway," he said. "And if we don't, we're coming out on October 31. That's what we're going to do. Here we go, that's democracy."
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