Theresa May today (October 23) updated MPs on the progress of Brexit talks amid a row concerning an alleged leak about a dinner with EU leaders in Brussels last week.<br /><br />The British Prime Minister said she relayed what she set out in her Florence speech to the European Council.<br /><br />She also said that she had a “degree of confidence” negotiations would reach a point in December where they could move forward. <br /><br />Addressing criticism that talks were taking too long saying they were “complicated and deeply technical” and that her negotiators were going through a possible Brexit agreement “line by line”.<br /><br />The Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn accused the PM of being “too weak” to bring together the “warring factions in her own cabinet”.<br /><br />He said Britain “was stuck in an impasse” during the “most crucial negotiations in our country’s modern history”.<br /><br />A correspondent for Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Sunday (October published an account of the EU chief executive’s reactions after a dinner meeting with May on Britain’s EU withdrawal.<br /><br />It painted a picture of the British PM “begging for help” from European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.<br /><br />The paper’s unnamed source said that the PM looked like “someone who can’t sleep a wink”.<br /><br />Downing Street declined to comment on the reports emphasizing that both sides were of the opinion that the meeting was “constructive and friendly”.<br /><br />May’s ex-adviser Nick Timothy accused Juncker’s chief of staff, German lawyer Martin Selmayr, of being the source.<br /><br />In a tweet, Selmayr denied the accusation that he Juncker have “no interest in weakening the PM”.<br />
