‘We cannot change what we are’: Michel Barnier stares down Tory threats

EU’s chief negotiator reaffirms that a no-deal outcome would be the responsibility of Boris Johnson. As the Brexit pressure ratchets up another notch, Michel Barnier appears everything most of the current British government is not: clear, calm, precise – and logical to a fault. “I promised myself from the start,” the EU’s silver-haired, grey-suited chief negotiator told a packed theatre near the Gare du Nord in Paris on Saturday, “that I would not allow passio