Even Macron still hopes Brexit Britain will come to its senses

Leaving the EU has had a terrible impact on all parties. We must grasp that it is a policy that cannot be made to work

Excuse me, sir, but why are you wearing a poppy? Remembrance Day was on Thursday." The speaker was a Spanish gentlemen. The scene: the breakfast room of a hotel in Valladolid, an hour's train ride north-west of Madrid, on Saturday, the 13th of this month. I was struggling with the toaster. You know how it is when one arrives at a self-service breakfast room.

I replied that I always wore a poppy until Remembrance Sunday, when there was the traditional Cenotaph parade in London. Ah," he said. Forgive me, but why on earth did your country vote the way it did?"