Remainiac-in-chief Blair to meet Juncker
TONY BLAIR was accused of interfering with Brexit yesterday after it emerged that he will meet Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels as crunch negotiations are taking place.
The confidential meeting between the former prime minister and the Brussels chief will be held at the European Commission’s headquarters next week in close proximity to the ongoing discussions.
Mr Blair’s decision to hold the meeting with his ‘good friend’ will raise eyebrows after he recently claimed that the Brexit vote could be reversed.
The meeting next Thursday is likely to coincide with the end of the third round of talks, when Brexit Secretary David Davis will tie up discussions with the EU’s negotiator Michel Barnier.
It will be the second time that Mr Blair has met the former Luxembourg prime minister this year, while the pair also met in January 2016, several months before the referendum.
Ukip MEP Nigel Farage said: ‘Blair’s interference and desire to sell out our country never stops. The Remainiac-inchief has no position or power any more, only delusions.’
EU officials however rebutted concerns over the timing of the meeting as a ‘conspiracy theory’ but refused to rule out that they would discuss Brexit.
Instead, they said that a ‘broad range of issues’ would form part of the discussions including ‘issues of current European economics and politics’.
‘They are good friends, they’ve known each other for a very long time,’ a European Commission spokesman added.
The president is in constant and regular contact not only with the current leaders…but of course also with his peers from the previous times.’
The meeting comes after Mr Blair was photographed holidaying with Joseph Muscat, the Maltese prime minister who has said Brexit ‘will not happen’.
The former Labour leader and his wife Cherie joined the island’s leader and his wife Michelle for the meeting in Valletta earlier this month.
Boris Johnson has made fun of Theresa May’s decision to hold an election – saying it had not gone ‘entirely to plan’.
While on a visit to Libya, the Foreign Secretary suggested she had not been ‘ready’ when she called June’s snap poll.
He used the electoral disaster endured by the Tories as a ‘lesson’ to Libya’s prime minister Fayez al-Sarraj about rushing to the polls earlier this week.