Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission
Credit: Johanna Geron/Reuters
SIR – If it wasn’t apparent already, the stance of Brussels in the latest rounds of negotiations for a trade deal makes it absolutely clear that the EU has no intention of according Britain the respect and consideration that almost any other independent nation on earth would be granted as a matter of course.
Instead, we were treated with disdain.
If it can do that to the nation which by its actions in 1940 made the EU possible in the first place, then one trusts that other nations will take note and be suitably circumspect in their dealings with this sclerotic polity – which looks unlikely to survive for much longer in any case.