In remarks likely to enrage UK ministers, Barnier said Brexit would be “an educational process” for the British public who voted to leave the EU. UK’s approach to Brexit is ‘nostalgic and unrealistic’, says EU negotiator Read more“There are extremely serious consequences of leaving the single market and it hasn’t been explained to the British people,” he said, according to the BBC. The Brexit secretary said his opposite number “looked a bit silly because there were plainly things we achieved”. The Eurosceptic former cabinet minister John Redwood said Barnier’s “disobliging language” showed the EU had still not accepted the referendum result. “I think it’s very sad that the EU does not appear to be listening to the British people since the Brexit vote,” he said.

Source: The Guardian September 03, 2017 14:12 UTC