This is a story of how journalists get things wrong.
On the night of 23 June 2016, after the day of voting in the Brexit referendum in the UK, I assembled in the Brussels pub The Funky Monkey with the ‘BritPack’ of Brussels correspondents for UK newspapers.
Naming no names – just their publications – but it comprised The Guardian (x2), The Times, The Telegraph, The Sun, The Express, The Economist, the Financial Times and quite possibly a few others I can’t remember. Drink was taken.
I was working then for Euractiv, as their Brexit (from the Brussels end) correspondent, plus EU foreign policy.
Anyone who was in Brussels that night will remember the weather – an ominous summer storm blew in, with thunder and lightning.
