04-01-2017 00:44 via theguardian.com

Ambassador to EU quits and warns staff over 'muddled thinking'

Sir Ivan Rogers says negotiating experience is in ‘short supply’ and that politicians disliked his warnings of pitfalls in his resignation emailBritain’s ambassador to the European Union Sir Ivan Rogers dealt a blow to the UK’s Brexit negotiations by quitting and urging his fellow British civil servants in Brussels to assert their independence by challenging “ill-founded arguments and muddled thinking”. Sir Ivan Rogers said, in an email explaining his reasons
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