Michel Barnier – Brexit from the inside

Michel Barnier, the dull technocrat who was the EU negotiator for Brexit has pitched his name into the ring as a right-wing hopeful for the French Presidential election next year. He has also just published ‘My Secret Brexit Diary: A Glorious Illusion’ in which he makes clear his view of Brexit as irrational and self-damaging –  “I still don’t understand what the point of it is, even from the perspective of the British national interest,” he writes.&ldquo