Brexit has weakened and isolated the UK, says EU vaccine chief

Thierry Breton, who is also single market commissioner, believes downsides of leaving bloc are exposed by pandemic

Brexit has proved an aberration that has weakened and isolated the UK", the EU's single market commissioner, Thierry Breton, has said, with any concrete benefits for Britain hard to see" and multiple downsides cruelly exposed by the pandemic.

Breton, a former French finance minister in charge of the bloc's Covid vaccination programme, now outpacing Britain's, said that five years after the referendum, Brexit's promised outcomes were far from reality".