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Book Synopsis'Essential reading for anyone anxious to understand the background to the Brexit debate' TabletWith all the political infighting in British politics over Brexit dominating the news cycle, we almost forgot who we were negotiating with. Now, in Blind Man's Brexit, we get to see and hear exactly what was going on in the corridors of power in Brussels, and how the EU comprehensively outmanoeuvred the UK government. When Lode Desmet met
Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament's representative on
Brexit, about filming a fly-on-the-wall documentary on the negotiations, he could never have imagined the unique access he would be granted and the extraordinary story that he would end up filming. As the cameras rolled, Lode sat in on private conversations with chief negotiator
Michel Barnier and saw first hand how
Theresa May's government's negotiating positions were knocked back time
Trade Review'The narrative...conveys an unsavoury mess, making clear what a terrbile failure by almost every UK politician this has been.
Essential reading for anyone anxious to understand the background to the Brexit debate.' -- Mark Fisher * The Tablet *
