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Post-Brexit UK always welcome back in EU, says Timmermans

Post-Brexit UK always welcome back in EU, says Timmermans

European commission’s VP writes ‘love letter’ to Britons, saying UK unnecessarily damaged by Brexit

Britain has been unnecessarily damaged by Brexit and “more will follow”, the vice-president of the European commission has written in a “love letter” to the British people in which he promises a warm welcome back should attitudes change.

Frans Timmermans, who is Ursula von der Leyen’s deputy in her role as European commission president, writes that British scepticism of the EU had been an asset to the bloc as he expresses his own feelings of rejection ahead of the country’s impending departure on 31 January, likening himself to a jilted “old lover”.

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