There was a cold front in Berlin today as Theresa May took to the stage for a joint press conference with Angela Merkel. The Prime Minister is in Germany to discuss post-Brexit security – with a speech scheduled tomorrow in Munich – but all anyone wanted to talk about today was Merkel’s Davos joke. The German chancellor is said to have regaled hacks at the meeting of the global elite with an anecdote about May having no idea what she wants from Brexit.
Asked in the Q&A today whether she understood Merkel’s frustration that she is still unable to say what Britain wants, May insisted the government had a clear position – but added that ‘this isn’t just a one-way street’. For her part, Merkel appeared none-the-wiser as to May’s Brexit wish list. She insisted that she was ‘not frustrated at all – just curious’.
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