Inching towards a Brexit deal? EU Council chief says basic premise ready

Theoretically tomorrow we could accept this deal with Great Britain, Donald Tusk told Polish journalists in Brussels

EU Council President Donald Tusk said on Wednesday that the basic foundations of an agreement on Brexit were ready and that it could materialise within hours.

"The basic foundations of an agreement are ready and theoretically tomorrow we could accept this deal with Great Britain," Tusk told Polish journalists in Brussels.

"Theoretically, in seven or eight hours everything should be clear," Tusk said via a live broadcast on Poland's TVN24 news channel.