The foreign minister allegedly entered a war of words with an Italian minister over Britain’s favourite fizz and fish and chips Leon Neal/Getty ImagesBoris Johnson has been accused of threatening Italy’s prosecco producers with a trade war and insulting its government during talks over Brexit. He also revealed a terse exchange with the foreign secretary over future trade, claiming that Mr Johnson told him Italy would eventually allow Britain to access the EU’s single market “because you don’t want to lose prosecco exports”. “He basically said, ‘I don’t want free movement of people but I want the single market’,” Mr Calenda said. He said, ‘You’ll sell less prosecco’. I said, ‘OK, you’ll sell less fish and…

Source: The Times November 16, 2016 17:03 UTC