UK ministers fear bloody chapter in Theresa May's Brexit thriller

It's a tough ask and in private, ministers and senior officials in May's team are terrified that the negotiations will fail

As she departs the sweltering heatwave that’s hit London this summer for a break with her husband, Theresa May (right) is — for now — in a position of relative safety.
 

The U.K.’s rolling Brexit crisis is temporarily becalmed and the British prime minister can afford to take a holiday. What’s certain, though, is that the peace will not last.
 

When Brexit talks resume in Brussels in mid-August, British and European officials will have just 10 weeks to finalise the complex set of international negotiations before their October deadline. That’s because they need to leave time to ratify whatever agreement