In August 2019, "The Guardian" reported that British diplomats would pull out from the EU's decision making meetings "within days", under plans being drawn up by Downing Street. That newspaper also said in the same month that any attempt to bypass MPs could create a constitutional crisis. On 21 August 2019, Angela Merkel offered and Boris Johnson accepted a suggestion that the British Government should come up with a viable alternative to the backstop, and on the same day the President of France Emmanuel Macron indicated that no deal was the most likely Brexit outcome due to the inability of the UK to accept the withdrawal agreement. At an interview with the BBC at the 45th G7 summit in late August 2019 Johnson suggested that the chances of achieving a Brexit deal were now "touch and go". He had previously stated that the odds of a no-deal exit were "a million to one". On 28 August 2019, the Johnson ministry reopened negotiations on the withdrawal agreement, but set as a pre-condition that the Irish backstop must be scrapped before doing so, a condition to which the EU had declared it would not agree.