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The nightmare in-tray facing Britain’s next prime minister
Charles Grant, the director of the Centre for European Reform think-tank, is pessimistic: “So long as the British persist with the Northern Ireland bill — and I fear Truss will — it will be impossible to have a better relationship with the EU,” he said.