Brexit deadline ‘will not be met’, Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney

As formal Brexit negotiations wrap up, Ireland’s foreign minister is predicting that a deal will not be struck before the deadline laid out by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Simon Coveney tells FRANCE 24 he believes it’s “far too ambitious” to expect a conclusion to the negotiations over the United Kingdom’s future relationship with the European Union before the next EU summit on October 15.