My Secret Brexit Diary: A Glorious Illusion

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At the moment such an approach is not possible because Pfizer is reliant on a company in Yorkshire, Corda International, to provide several key components for it jab. Sir Paul Collier, a British development economist at Oxford University, made the warning as he outlined a "catastrophic mistake" the EU had made. He confesses to being frankly “stupefied” by the Lancaster House speech in which May laid out the early UK’s red lines. “The number of doors she shut, one after the other,” he marvels on 17 January 2017. “I am astonished at the way she has revealed her cards … before we have even started negotiating.”

Britain’s post-Brexit future was determined by “the quarrels, low blows, multiple betrayals and thwarted ambitions of a certain number of Tory MPs”, the EU’s chief negotiator has said in his long-awaited diaries. verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ As late as May 2020, Barnier records his surprise at the UK’s continued demands for “a simple Canada-type trade deal” while still retaining single market advantages “in innumerable sectors”. There remains “real incomprehension, in Britain, of the objective, sometimes mechanical consequences of its choices”, he writes.

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Economist and fellow at think tank Centre for Brexit policy, Catherin Mcbride insisted the UK could have an even greater trading relationship with the US. May’s proposed timetable – undoing a 44-year partnership via article 50 and agreeing a future relationship, all within two years – also seemed “ambitious to say the least, when it took seven years of intense work to negotiate a simple FTA with Canada”.

She added: “If this was the UK undermining the rights of EU citizens here, you can be sure we would never hear the end of ‘racist Britain’, but instead we hear little from the press and nothing from the Government. Mr Beaune, a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron, said he was striving to ensure the post-Brexit fisheries pact is upheld. Soon, however, the talking turned to Conservative party infighting, and by the end it had become “political piracy … They will go to any length. The current team in Downing St is not up to the challenges of Brexit nor to the responsibility that is theirs for having wanted Brexit. Simply, I no longer trust them.”Nicolas Bay was speaking in the wake of the European Commission President’s ill-fated visit to Ankara, during which she was forced to sit on a nearby sofa while Mr Erdogan and Charles Michel, President of the European Council, took the only two allocated chairs. Continent Latest news, analysis and comment from POLITICO’s editors and guest writers on the continent. Ursula von der Leyen only has herself to blame for her "sofagate humiliation", and has blown whatever credibility she had by copying up to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a French MEP has said. The Government must not ignore this dangerous threat. This is exactly why we at Get Britain Out have consistently been calling for the Government to end our reliance on a wide range of imported products - not just vaccines.

And social media users have also suggested his book - to be entitled Brexit: The Grand Illusion - signals the former EU chief negotiator’s intention to challenge Emmanuel Macron in next year’s French Presidential election. Not everyone was unimpressed though, with one Rejoiner commenting: “Your dignified manner and language, Mr Barnier, in dealing with a Britain that finds it expedient to employ the childish currency of "enemies", to advance private equity interests, was greatly admired. The Get Britain Out director, writing in her weekly newsletter, pointed to an announcement by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that the bloc would soon be making sure all vaccines it uses are made 100 percent within the EU.

The row has broken out amid speculation that ministers are at war over the controversial Northern Ireland Protocol. Published: 26 Sep 2021 Michel Barnier: why is the EU’s former Brexit chief negotiator sounding like a Eurosceptic? The European Union has made a desperate plea to "talk seriously" to Boris Johnson and the UK after MEPs in Brussels again refused to ratify the trade deal, as tensions continue to simmer over post-Brexit trade arrangements for Northern Ireland. Published: 27 Aug 2021 Michel Barnier joins long list of leaders vying to unite French centre-right