Brexit talks plunged into fresh crisis on Monday after Britain warned the European Union it could undercut the divorce deal it signed unless the bloc agrees to a free trade deal by Oct. 15.Below are details of the saga: NO EURO After the Labour Party’s Tony Blair won a 1997 election, his finance minister Gordon Brown effectively ruled out entry into the euro currency by setting out five economic tests that had been worked out with his top aide, Ed Balls, in a New York taxi. That meant one of the EU’s biggest economies would not be at the top table of decision making. REFERENDUM When the Conservatives returned to ... (full story)