EU-UK relations are at a new low ahead of Boris Johnson’s expected election as Prime Minister on Tuesday, and it doesn’t look like they’ll get better any time soon.
Reports of a stormy meeting between the UK’s Brexit secretary Stephen Barclay and the EU’s lead negotiator Michel Barnier last week show how attitudes have hardened. EU officials described the meeting as “bullying” and “bad tempered” and said it was the most hostile encounter in the three years since the Brexit...