Better from England, but still going to have to improve a lot further to be real contenders.
Of course. But since they also thought tough talk led to the success of the Northern Ireland protocol in the first place there is probably no escape from the UK government belief in talking tough. Never mind that the protocol was not in fact renegotiated.
https://twitter.com/Mij_Europe/status/1407395563696496645
It might actually be that eventually the UK government wins the battle to move sausages from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, and the protocol otherwise remains exactly as was. In that situation, who won?
So much more still to learn about negotiating with the EU. Today's lesson may well be that resolution of single issues is entirely possible but time consuming and distracting from the bigger issues you had hoped to solve.
So back to the main business of the day. How little do we still know about how the EU operates five years after voting to leave it? As it happens this day five years ago I was probably fielding calls from the US complaining about the EU being horrible negotiators...
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