The UK will 'absolutely not' ask for a Brexit extension, despite Covid-19 causing unprecedented chaos at the border. Britain faces being plunged into a no-deal Brexit in just 11 days - and today France banned travel to the UK over the new strain of coronavirus.
But Transport Secretary Grant Shapps insisted negotiators wouldn't ask for more time. He told BBC Breakfast: "I think the one thing which could actually add fuel to the fire would be ending something that everyone's known is ending for a very long time, which is the end of the transition period which completes on the 31st December, so absolutely not, no. "The important thing is that businesses continue to prepare, that individuals are prepared and as I say, as it happens, it's