Britain should be generous to the EU: a civil Brexit is still worth fighting for
The danger is that leaders in Europe and the UK have enjoyed the theatrics in Jersey rather too much
6 May 2021 • 10:52pm
A couple of years ago, when the Brexit talks were in full swing, the Civil Service carried out a war game with France as the imagined adversary.
The scenario: a deal was agreed, but with fishing rights bitterly contested. The French deployed a flotilla of trawlers, ramming English boats in a protest about scallops.
The exercise ended with Michael Gove issuing a statement announcing the death of a British fisherman. At the time, ministers thought the whole game was ludicrous. It seems less so now.