The European Union's chief negotiator on Brexit, Michel Barnier, said on Tuesday 2 April that it was “striking and certainly disappointing” to see that there is “no positive majority” in the British House of Commons on the terms of the British withdrawal, ten days before the exit date now set.
The day before, British MPs had again rejected four exit options, including maintaining a permanent customs union between the United Kingdom and the EU (276 votes in favour, 279 against) and...