Confidential documents that “reflect the ideas the UK has put forward” on Brexit have been shared with the EU, the UK government has said.

Ministers will table “formal written solutions when we are ready” and not to an “artificial deadline”, it added.

Boris Johnson said he did not want to “exaggerate progress” of negotiations, but some was being made.

It comes after Finland’s prime minister said that Mr Johnson had 12 days to set out his Brexit plans to the EU.

But a government source said the development was not in response to the remarks.