UK and EU ‘within kissing distance’ of post-Brexit Gibraltar border deal

Fabian Picardo speaks to the media outside the EU headquarters in Brussels on Friday Photograph: Omar Havana/AP

The UK and the EU are within “kissing distance” of a post-Brexit deal to guarantee free movement over the border between Gibraltar and Spain, Gibraltar’s chief minister has said.

After a meeting between the UK foreign secretary, David Cameron, Spain’s foreign minister, José Manuel Albares, and the European Commission vice-president Maroš Šefčovič, agreement was reached on issues that have dogged negotiations for the past five years.