At a meeting in Brussels on Monday 6 February, the French Prime Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, and the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, agreed that once it leaves the European Union, the United Kingdom should not obtain a status that gives the impression that it is better for member states to be outside the EU than in it.
The central theme of the discussion between the two men on the lessons to be learnt from Brexit is that the regime offered to the United Kingdom...