EU summit to throw Britain a Brexit bone

Brussels

EUROPEAN Union (EU) leaders are set to extend an olive branch to British Prime Minister Theresa May at a summit in Brussels this week in a bid to break a deadlock in Brexit negotiations.

The Europeans will announce that there has not been enough progress on divorce issues, including the size of Britain's exit bill, to move on to the second phase, of trade talks, until December at the earliest.

But in a goodwill gesture to a badly weakened British leader, they are set to say that the EU should start internal preparation…