Who is winning the Brexit spin war?
The IndependentGiven that the Boris-Ursula dinner date didn’t go so well, and that neither side has shifted their negotiating remit or “red lines”, it may be a mystery as to why the UK-EU talks are staggering on into the weekend – and possibly longer. Despite the fact that, in their separate statements, Boris Johnson and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen indicated a decision would be made soon, the British foreign secretary, Dominic Raab tellingly left the door open for them to continue even longer. After all it is only a year since the British election campaign when Johnson declared there was “zero chance” of a “no-deal Brexit”. Both sides, in fact, have their own political pressures and have no wish to add to their problems by seeming to be responsible for a historic “failure of statecraft”, in the prime minister’s terms. Whatever Johnson returns with will be regarded as a “Brexit betrayal” by the likes of Nigel Farage, who doesn’t like the sound of any British-European “Partnership Agreement”.
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