Donald Tusk warns Theresa May she has not done enough to break the Brexit deadlock

Donald Tusk has warned that there is not "sufficient progress" for negotiations to progress, despite the Prime Minister's Brexit speech in Florence. 

The European Council President said Brexit was "all about damage control" and that he hoped the philosophy of "having our cake and eating it" had come to an end. 

He met with Mrs May for talks in Downing Street after holding discussions with the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier. 

Mr Tusk told Mrs May: "After your excellent speech in Florence I am much more optimistic.

"Of course, still we have to do something maybe more substantive."

The meeting comes after the fourth round of talks on the UK's withdrawal from the European Union began in Brussels on Monday, with Brexit Secretary David Davis insisting there are "no excuses" for blocking progress.

He said Mrs May's speech in Florence on the strategy for quitting the bloc set out concrete proposals and a breakthrough was now needed.

Speaking this afternoon, Mrs May said she and Mr Tusk had agreed that "things have moved on" in the process.

She also stressed the need for a "good economic and security partnership" between the UK and EU after withdrawal.

Mrs May said: "I set out in my speech last week in Florence the hope for working together to that deep and special partnership I think we want to create with the European Union once we leave the European Union.

"And the commitment we have to looking for a really good economic partnership.

"I think that by being creative in the ways that we approach these issues we can find solutions that work both for the remaining 27 but also for the UK and maintain that co-operation and partnership between the UK and the EU."