Gary Gibbon
I am told the EU negotiators left one recent meeting with the impression that David Frost’s greatest desire was that they didn’t go out and tell the media he’d come empty handed.
Matt spoke to Ska Keller a German Green Party MEP and head of the Green block. I began by asking how the EU would deal with Boris Johnson as Prime Minister.
Brussels was back in business today with the first meeting of the European Council since the Euro elections last month.
Parties with clear, bold ideas on left, right and even centre captured the imagination. But the traditional beasts of the EU are feeling diminished.
Sajjad Karim is a Conservative Remainer. Steven Woolfe used to be in UKIP, is currently sitting as an Independent and intends to join the new Brexit Party.
Theresa May is expected to head straight back to the House of Commons tomorrow to tell MPs what delay she’s been given.
Irish MEP Mairead McGuinness is Vice-President of the European Parliament.
Theresa May is expected to head straight back to the House of Commons tomorrow to tell MPs what delay she’s been given.
Gary Gibbon
Steve Baker, the ERG diehard showing no signs yet of backing the Prime Minister’s deal, has referred to how it would be like coming on the pitch when your team is 10-0 down at half time and it would be beyond challenging to turn it round and break out of the surly bonds of the EU.
Gary Gibbon
At the Chequers gathering yesterday, Theresa May warned any Brexiteers who dream of “no deal” that Parliament will not allow it. Brussels doesn’t appear to be quite so sure.
Gary Gibbon
Theresa May told the Tory MPs gathered in front of her last night that she couldn’t fully back the amendment there and then because she didn’t have Cabinet approval to do so… and then a few breaths later said she would whip the party to back it.
Gary Gibbon
Theresa May has 30 minutes to outline her case to EU leaders tonight. She will not be coming with “new concrete proposals” as Donald Tusk requested.
Gary Gibbon
The truth is that this moment was a necessary moment of challenge, but not a decisive one. Politics could all look very different in a few weeks’ time if Theresa May comes back with a deal from Brussels.
Gary Gibbon
On flights, aides say, she occasionally relaxes with Sudoku puzzles. While some of her colleagues in the Tory Party come with broad approaches, ideologies in some cases, Theresa May doggedly works through the puzzle.
Gary Gibbon
The real buzz amongst ministers and officials in the last couple of weeks has been talk of how a “no deal” might be avoided with a “deal lite”.
