Barnier’s dangerous assumption

So what happens now Michel Barnier has laid into Theresa May’s customs plan? That’s the question I try and answer in my Sun column this morning.

Those close to May are trying to downplay Barnier’s criticisms. One Cabinet Minister remarks, ‘It is not a great surprise. He’s been saying no all along’. This Minister’s view is that it is now ‘up to the member states’ what happens next.

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But they aren’t likely to come to the rescue of May’s plan: I understand that only a handful of them are interested in it.

Barnier’s real aim, as May has told the Brexit inner Cabinet, is to keep Britain in a customs union with the EU.