Brexit talks have stumbled to a halt again over the future of fishing.
The failure to make headway comes as a new poll shows the vast majority of Scots back a two-year delay to the process, made worse by the global coronavirus crisis.
Even people who voted Leave in 2016 appear to want to press pause.
The survey for the Best for Britain campaign groups showed 57 per cent of Brexit-backers want a delay.
The poll shows 83 per cent of Scots and 77 per cent across the UK would back an extension.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly refused to consider any delay to post-Brexit transition which is supposed to end in December. A decision to delay must be taken next month.
Britain’s chief negotiator David Frost said “very little” progress was made in the latest round of talks.
“We are fully committed to agreeing fishing provisions in line with the Political Declaration, but we cannot agree arrangements that are manifestly unbalanced and against the interests of the UK fishing industry,” he said.
EU negotiator Michel Barnier said: “Our future partnership will be shaped by the choices we make this year together.
“The EU will not act in haste on such an important matter.”
Best for Britain chief Naomi Smith said the new survey shows the public want to stop the rush.
She said: “While we are in the midst of a public health crisis, much of the necessary time to agree this deal has been stolen from us."
Stewart Hosie, the SNP international trade spokesman at Westminster, said: “It would be reckless in the extreme for Boris Johnson to impose a hard Brexit in the middle of a global pandemic and economic crisis.
"Millions of people and businesses are already struggling to get by. We cannot afford to pile a Tory-made disaster on top - dealing another hammer blow to the Scottish and UK economy at the worst possible time.”
