Theresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker were pictured on the steps of Downing Street greeting each other warmly ahead of their working dinner on Brexit last week. The next time Juncker comes for tea, the reception is likely to be somewhat frostier. An account of the meeting suggesting the PM was ‘on another galaxy’ has found its way into the press. May has hit back by calling the account ‘Brussels gossip’. Yet whoever is telling the truth, this acrimonious encounter looks like a sign of things to come.
Jean Claude Juncker is a ‘serial liar’, says the Sun which claims that ‘there are vipers more trustworthy than’ the EU president. It’s ’profoundly depressing’ that Juncker – who is so ’contemptuous of democracy’ – should play any part in these negotiations, the paper says. But like it or not, we’re stuck with him, and there’s a lesson for Theresa May in her encounter in Downing Street last week: ‘never, ever repeat the experience’.
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