Tuesday, 5 March 2019

May 'did not understand EU when she triggered Brexit'

Former UK ambassador Ivan Rogers says PM’s negotiating strategy was doomed to fail

Theresa May and her circle of advisers did not understand how the European Union works, and consequently followed a negotiating strategy in 2016 that was doomed to fail, the former UK ambassador to the EU Sir Ivan Rogers has said.

Speaking to the Institute for Government on Monday, Rogers said the people around the prime minister at the start of the article 50 process “didn’t know very much about European councils or that much about the EU”.

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