The rolling news channels were debating whether to wish work colleagues a happy Christmas, or risk offence. Journalists checked with each other that there really was nothing going on. And then the news gods delivered, and decreed he who waits in Downing Street in rain and shine shalt bear witness to handwritten notes about Brexit negotiations. And lo, did we learn of the “very French” EU negotiating team and how Britain would love thy Canada Plus deal for thyself. It meant that an afternoon was spent trying to decipher the full A4 page of notes, seen carried out of a meeting in No 9 Downing Street (home of David Davis’s Brexit department) by Julia Dockerill, chief of staff to the Conservative…

Source: The Times November 29, 2016 10:35 UTC