Government confident Brexit deal can be struck
struggle to remember a lot of it.”
She added that she does not “regret” the period, saying: “I love what I do and where I’m at personally. But I certainly wouldn’t want my children to go that way.”
Despite this Piper said the narrative in I Hate Suzie is “completely made up”, adding: “There are lots of moments I really wouldn’t want people to think were autobiographical.”
Her character is “not always likeable or a great mother”, she said. “She’s quite often monstrous and hysterical and tightly wound. But that’s in all of us.
“I find it incredibly frustrating when I watch anything and I’m not getting that from a female character.”
THE Government is still confident that a Brexit deal with the EU can be reached in September, a No.10 spokesman has said.
Ahead of the latest round of negotiations in Brussels this week, the spokesman said the Government “will continue to plug the gaps where any differences remain”.
It comes amid fears of a deadlock between the UK and the EU, with both sides admitting after the last talks in London in July that they still remain some way off reaching a post-Brexit trade agreement.
Looking ahead to the next trade negotiations which begin today, the No.10 spokesman said: “There are many issues that will be discussed during this week’s round, not least level playing field, fisheries, trading goods and services amongst others.”
After last month’s talks, the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier said a deal looked “at this point unlikely” given the UK position on fishing rights and post-Brexit competition rules.
Mr Barnier said the UK had not shown a “willingness to break the deadlock” on these issues.
He added that there was a risk of no deal being achieved unless the UK changed course on these topics which are “at the heart” of the EU’s trade interests and that an agreement would be needed by October “at the latest”.