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Boris is a ‘piece of work’ who ‘could have got a better deal if he’d been more precise’ – Juncker

The ex-European Commission chief said Sunak's deal should pave the way for the “normalising” of relations between the UK and Brussels.

Jack Peat by Jack Peat
2023-03-02 17:11
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Former European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has described Boris Johnson as “a piece of work” who could have achieved a better Brexit deal if he had been more precise in the negotiations.

Juncker welcomed Rishi Sunak’s new agreement with the EU on post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland saying it should pave the way for the “normalising” of relations between the UK and Brussels.

But in remarks that may cause irritation in Downing Street, he suggested that it gave a greater role to the European institutions than some in Britain had acknowledged.

“I think that the European Commission will have more authority than it seems – and as the European Court of Justice has been reconfirmed in its role as an arbiter when it comes to internal market questions concerning Northern Ireland,” he said in an interview with LBCs Tonight with Andrew Marr.

“So, I think that although the deal is giving a response to the major British concerns, there is a part of European Union in the deal some in Britain are trying to hide.”

His intervention came as Johnson said he would find it “very difficult” to support the agreement finalised earlier this week in Windsor by Sunak and the current commission president, Ursula von der Leyen.

Juncker said a similar deal would have been available to Johnson but “he was not able to acknowledge that some details of the arrangement had to be more precise”.

He said that while he liked Johnson personally, he had had better relations with all the other British prime ministers he had worked with.

“I like him as a person. He’s funny, but he’s serious nevertheless,” he said.

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“I had better relations with all the prime ministers of Britain I’ve known, starting with John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, even David Cameron, then mainly Theresa May, who was a lady.

“Boris Johnson was a piece of work, someone you cannot categorise, in normal definitions, but I liked him as a person.”

Related: Boris Johnson criticises Sunak’s NI deal – then recognises his own deal’s shortcomings

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