Britain’s cake-and-eat-it Brexit routine wears thin with Barnier

EU’s chief negotiator shows frustration with lack of progress and British ‘nostalgia’It was hard not to conclude, watching David Davis and Michel Barnier during their tense joint press conference at the end of the third round of Brexit talks in Brussels, that here were two men – and two sides – largely talking past each other.For the ever-upbeat Brexit secretary, “concrete progress” had been made – he listed some smaller, discrete areas to do with