UK - Theresa May has secured a Brexit victory in Brussels, pressuring EU chiefs into reopening talks on the future relationship with the aim of ensuring the Irish backstop never comes into force. Backstop negotiations will now reopen, the BBC reports, with Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay expected to travel to Strasbourg on Monday. A joint statement issued by the PM and the European Commission said President Juncker had “expressed his openness” to change the Political Declaration. The statement said he was eager to make it “more ambitious in terms of content and speed when it comes to the future relationship between the European Union and the UK”. Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki said: “Instead of sending anyone to hell, together find a solution that will be good for the EU, but also allow you to have a strong business partner in Britain after #Brexit.”