The last talks between the European and British Brexit negotiators to take place before the European summit on 19 October started, on Monday 9 October, in an atmosphere that was still tense – with both parties still engaged publicly in the game of short sentences, and both mutually denying that they are responsible for the slow pace of the negotiations.
According to French press agency AFP, British Prime Minister Theresa May intended to say, in a speech later that afternoon, that...