Michel Barnier raises UK hackles with speech about Isis and Brexit

Michel Barnier’s speech was condemned as a ‘jaw-droppingly ill-informed, graceless rant’.Michel Barnier caused irritation in Downing Street on Wednesday with a speech in which he appeared to link Britain’s vote to leave the EU with global solidarity in the battle against Isis.Speaking at a security conference in Berlin, the European commission’s chief negotiator in the Brexit talks spoke about the shock across the rest of the EU at the referendum result last year &n