EU heading for no-deal Brexit by mistake, Jeremy Hunt warns (Polls favor Boris)

Former Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has issued a plea to EU foreign ministers to avoid a “catastrophic failure in statecraft” over Brexit. He has urged them in an open letter to reach a compromise with Prime Minister Boris Johnson while they still can. Delaying Brexit would only increase the chances of a no-deal exit, he warned. “If they think this is bad – just wait until what happens after Boris wins an election,” he told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg in an exclusive interview. Mr Hunt – who lost out to Mr Johnson in July’s Conservative leadership contest – has written…