The chief negotiator of the European Union, Michel Barnier, presented a mandate for negotiating future relations with the United Kingdom without any major surprises on Monday 3 February, with red lines that are well known from London and that have been prepared for weeks with the Twenty-Seven.
While Mr Barnier was speaking to the Brussels press, the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was in London detailing his own British negotiating mandate. And his stance 3 days after the country’s...