Tory quarrels determined UK’s post-Brexit future, says Barnier

Revealed: EU chief negotiator's diaries, The Great Illusion, give blow-by-blow account of moves behind UK's departure

Britain's post-Brexit future was determined by the quarrels, low blows, multiple betrayals and thwarted ambitions of a certain number of Tory MPs", the EU's chief negotiator has said in his long-awaited diaries.

The UK's early problem, writes Michel Barnier in The Great Illusion, his 500-page account, was that they began by talking to themselves. And they underestimate the legal complexity of this divorce, and many of its consequences."