British politicians are more than capable of committing blunders, but so too are their continental opposite numbers.
The Government could dangle before the EU another gain it wants in order to win a revised Protocol.
Whether writing, speaking or negotiating, he puts on a performance which the spectators enjoy all the more because it horrifies the guardians of convention.
Neither Trump, Merkel nor the EU institutions are showing the global leadership necessary. Over to a joint ticket of the Prime Minister and Macron.
Nation states can act decisively when they wish to do so: the EU seems paralysed.
The true believer whose appointment to represent the European Parliament in the Brexit negotiations is “an act of war”.
We have, in effect, a national bar that takes the power to out of the hands of local people and leaves it with Sir Humphrey.