UK Government 'quarrels and betrayals' determined outcome of Brexit talks, says Michel Barnier

Mr Barnier described Boris Johnson as 'advancing like a bulldozer, manifestly trying to muscle his way forwards'

Michel Barnier: 'The current team in Downing Street is not up to the challenges of Brexit nor to the responsibility that is theirs for having wanted Brexit.' Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Britain’s politicians driven by their own domestic agendas failed to understand the implications of their decision to take the country out of the EU, Brussels’ chief Brexit negotiator has said.

Michel Barnier said the outcome of the protracted negotiations over the UK’s departure was the result “the quarrels, low blows, multiple betrayals and thwarted ambitions of a certain number of Tory MPs”.