EU officials have poured cold water on Boris Johnson's Brexit intervention, saying his opinion simply does not matter to the bloc
, picking fights with the EU, twisting facts and reneging on his own Withdrawal Agreement, he is now largely seen as a discredited figure.
“It doesn’t really matter for Brussels what he thinks,” he said. “It only really matters if the current prime minister can carry this through, and it looks like he can do it. So Boris Johnson’s position doesn’t matter –specially since it’s really about promoting Boris Johnson and not solving the issues for Northern Ireland.”
. “And I had better relations with all the prime ministers of Britain I’ve known, starting with John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, even David Cameron, then mainly Theresa May,” he said. He described the Windsor Framework as a “real breakthrough” and said it gave EU institutions more authority than it appeared.
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