Jonathan Miller Jonathan Miller

What is motivating Macron’s self-destructive Brexit position?

issue 29 September 2018

As France prepared to go to the polls in the Spring of 2017, it was already probable that Emmanuel Macron would become president, and that would not be good news for Brexiting Britain. That anybody was shocked that Macron led the autodafé of Theresa May at the European council in Salzburg last week is therefore itself shocking.

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