Olly Robbins: steely operator fighting on the Brexit frontline

PM’s human shield is used to taking hits for his masters – but is he dangerously exposed?Long before he became the public face of the Brexit negotiations, Olly Robbins was well known to journalists at the Guardian. This week he has been castigated in the pro-leave press as a kind of Machiavelli secretly operating in the pro-European cause, “the unelected civil servant who has usurped the Brexit secretary and seized control of the negotiations,” according to the Telegraph.