Barnier ‘lobbied to stop May withdrawing article 50 in two years’

The alleged request from Barnier suggests some nervousness about what the UK would be prepared to do.The EU’s chief negotiator lobbied for the UK to be barred from stopping the article 50 process without the rest of the union’s consent, it has been claimed.Senior Brussels sources say Michel Barnier asked for the line stopping the UK from unilaterally reversing the process to be included in a European parliament resolution that passed on Wednesday.