Even those of us who are sceptical about Emmanuel Macron should acknowledge that the French president had a point today when he told the Brits to make a decision one way or the other and get on with it. It is now 1001 days since the 2016 referendum. Everyone has had enough. Even the British have grown heartily sick of faffing about on Brexit.
Macron brought some welcome plain-speaking to the table in Brussels, where EU leaders were meeting for a European Council with Brexit on the agenda. Unless MPs at Westminster vote for the deal negotiated between the British government and the EU, Macron said, then it looks like no deal will happen in a week’s time.
“We have to be clear,” he said.