Britain’s Boris Johnson takes shots at E.U. leaders as tensions over ‘sausage war’ threaten message of unity

On Wednesday, the U.K.’s Brexit minister, David Frost, met in London with Maros Sefcovic, the European Commission’s vice president for interinstitutional relations. Both were unable to reach an agreement. The E.U. official said it could be possible to set up an arrangement in which Britain would temporarily remain aligned with E.U. sanitary rules, eliminating the need for 80 percent of the checks. But this possibility was repeatedly rejected by British officials, since it would requiring sticking with some E.U. regulations in the wake of Brexit.