,
5 tweets,
1 min read
Read on Twitter
All attention is focussed on whether the PM will announce her departure date tomorrow. But her Tory Brexiter critics are equally obsessed too that the talks on UK’s future relationship with EU should not be led on the Whitehall side by Olly Robbins. Well they won’t be but...
not because the PM has thrown him under a bus, though you would think she had if you’ve been following government leaks. In fact, senior Whitehall sources tell me Robbins himself has had quite enough of trying to reconcile the PM’s Brexit red lines with what the EU...
is able to negotiate and wanted to quit at Christmas. I am told he agreed to stay on till the PM’s deal is ratified by parliament (or, which now looks more likely, some other resolution of this first Brexit phase!). According to a friend of...
Robbins, he would rather stick pins in his eyes than do any more penal servitude on the Brexit-talks chain gang. He wants out. And what really pisses off Whitehall is the sense that even if many are critical of the Brexit plan he negotiated for the PM, it is and
...always was her plan, so they are despondent at the impression created that she is offering him up as a ritual sacrifice. This impression may be wrong. She may be totally foursquare behind him. But that is not what his colleagues see.
