The EU’s metaphorical doors, arms and hearts may be open to a UK change of mind, but Brexit carries on regardless.
If all politics is theatre, then this week’s European Parliament plenary was a Brexit rom com, with European Council president Donald Tusk (“our hearts are still open to you”) playing the part of the earnest romantic (see EUROPE 11940).
Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage seemed taken aback at the emotional outpouring (even Jean-Claude Juncker offered the UK an open...