The senior BBC reporter said the European Union will try not to get involved in a “blame game” with UK should MPs fail to obtain a new extension to Brexit process to avoid a no deal scenario. Ms Adler said that in spite of comments from top French politicians suggesting President Emmanuel Macron could veto a new request for a delay EU leaders will work to ensure an agreement is reached with Boris Johnson before October 31. Speaking to the Today programme on Monday, the BBC reporter said: “We’ve heard the French foreign minister saying this weekend they are not going to renew an extension if it’s just going to keep going with more of the status quo, more arguing in Westminster.

“That’s being taken with a pinch of salt by all his other colleagues across the European Union.

“If you think about that blame game if it comes to a no deal Brexit, which is taken seriously in the UK, which is taken seriously in the EU, EU leaders are not going to want to be seen to be the ones closing the door in the UK’s face if there is a possibility of Brexit with a deal or even of Brexit being reversed.”

Ms Adler continued: “It’s unlikely, at the end of the day, if the other EU leaders said they would like an extension, that France would turn around and say no.

“You forget a couple of weeks ago the French President said very openly, ‘I’m very happy to play bad cop when it comes to Brexit’.”

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President Macron emerged as a vocal opponent of a new Brexit extension unless the British Government can provide a “clear” reason for a further delay to Britain’s withdrawal from the bloc.

And last week French European Affairs Minister Amelie de Montchalin also voiced her doubt at France backing a request from the UK for a new postponement.

Ms de Montchalin said: “When I hear the British saying ‘give us three months more and we will solve the problem’, we can see that another six months would not solve the problem, nor another three months.

“They have to be able to tell us what they want. We know what they don’t want but we are still struggling to understand what they do want.”

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During a press conference with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar outside the Government Buildings in Dublin today, Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed: “What everyone in the whole of the EU can see is that Brexit negotiations have been going on far too long – they want an end to it and to get it done.

“We will come out on October 31. I am sure parliamentarians will see the wisdom of doing that.

“I am undaunted by whatever may take in parliament – what the British people want us to do is deliver a deal to take us out on October 31.”

The Prime Minister was in Dublin to hold talks with Mr Varadkar in an attempt to break the Brexit impasse.

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Mr Johnson has said that he will defy the law and has refused to ask Brussels for extra time to negotiate a deal.

Relations between Britain and Ireland at an all-time low and Mr Varadkar believes there will not be a breakthrough in talks a today’s meeting.

The Taoiseach commented that a no deal Brexit would be “a tragedy” – but played down the prospect of any breakthrough before October.

Mr Varadkar told reporters during a visit to the port of Dublin on Sunday: “I don’t think it would be shared by the other 27 member governments.

“I don’t expect any big breakthroughs, but I do think it’s an opportunity for us to establish a relationship.

“If we come to an agreement that agreement will happen in October at the EU summit. But the stakes are high, certainly I don’t think anyone can argue with that.

“I am loathed to speculate, but if we end up in a no deal scenario on November 1, I do think within weeks or months the EU and UK will have to sit down round the table and negotiate again, but it would be a tragedy if we got to that point.”

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