Brussels heavyweights are clashing over whether Brexit can be reversed and on what terms
As Michel Barnier’s famous ticking clock chimes for the ten-year anniversary of Brexit, most of the focus is on the chaos on the British side of the Channel.
Keir Starmer is the sixth prime minister in a decade to have been chewed up and spat out by the increasingly frenetic British political system, with the Labour Party just as riven as ever on the vexed question of Brexit.
The European Commission’s stance has long been that the ball is in the UK court. But the truth is, senior EU figures don’t agree on letting the Brits back in either.
Barnier, who led the negotiations on behalf of the other then 27 member states, said in an interview with The Guardian last week that Britain could rejoin on supremely favourable terms, keeping its own currency, and staying out of the Schengen free travel zone.
