Neale Richmond

Objectively, he hasn't been a bad Prime Minister, but he's been completely hamstrung.

Hamstrung by the impacts of Brexit.

Whoever replaces him, and whatever they try to do, they are inheriting a British economy and a British society that has been systematically damaged by Brexit.

And there isn't a clear pathway out.

It depends which member state you visit, to be quite frank.

This is the thing, when Brexit was dominating my life and the headlines everywhere here, you'd go over to a meeting in Brussels and it wasn't even mentioned.

Because the further you moved away geographically from the UK, it just wasn't a big impact.

Economically, society, they go like, well, let them have their moment and they'll make their decision.

The EU has moved on.

Certainly there are a lot of people rightly at the...

Leadership at a European level want a closer relationship with the UK on areas like security, defence, tackling the pandemic, climate change, energy needs.

Britain's important.

It's still a really big country, regardless of the impact of Brexit.

It's still in the G7, it's still in the G20, it's still a hugely powerful country around the world.

So certainly within the EU, lots of people would like a closer relationship.

But I don't know if there's too many people.

I'd love to see the UK come back.

And of course I would.

But I don't know how many other European colleagues really want to get pulled into another British psychodrama going on about Brexit.

And this played into a lot of the real leave arguments.