May pulls off ‘le backwards’ in Brussels and heads for Pizza Hut stardom | Marina Hyde

Even for aficionados of the comedy of embarrassment, this week has been a hard watchFor all the drama of her stand-up row with Jean-Claude Juncker, the top line on Theresa May’s save-the-day mission to Brussels is that it resulted in the EU actually removing the only helpful paragraph of the draft conclusions. Never mind “the backstop”; this is what is known as “the backwards” – or le backwards, on the continent. Perhaps they should have kept Brownfinger off t