Amid the fantasies and delusions of a contest that brings shame on the Conservative Party, the key figure may be emerging. While attention is fixed on the committee rooms of Westminster and supporters of Boris Johnson (take a bow, James Cleverly) who write supportive articles with no mention of the words “European”, “Union” or “Brexit”, do not lose sight of the real leader of Europe. The clowns in a minefield of British politics may have less say over our destiny than the president of France, who is starting to tire of our juvenile floor-show. The identity of our next prime minister may not matter as much as the locked nature of Brexit. According to worrying whispers in Paris, President Macron has come to the conclusion…

Source: The Times June 13, 2019 16:07 UTC