Whatever happened to Michel Barnier?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Brexit, in this sense, was a disastrously wrong answer to a legitimate set of questions.
59% : Barnier still believes, passionately, that Brexit was a terrible mistake, fuelled partly by post-imperial nostalgia and an inability to confront the realities of the present.
56% : There is, he agrees, a clear parallel between the disillusionment and discontent among the red wall voters who elected Boris Johnson to "get Brexit done", and the gilets jaunes movement in France, which launched a nationwide rebellion against a fuel tax rise that morphed into a broader revolt against elites and the metropolitan centres of power.
55% : From the very beginning I spoke about the consequences of Brexit.
50% : As the former Brexit negotiator and as a French politician I will draw the lessons of Brexit, OK?"
50% : We need a strong Europe to fight climate change, ensure financial stability, control immigration and combat terrorism."
48% : Barnier writes in a diary entry on Valentine's Day in 2018 that Brexit also came about because of a popular sentiment that a global, liberal, open economy was not delivering prosperity and opportunities for large swathes of the population.
46% : At a hustings in the southern city of Nimes, he expounded on what the lessons of Brexit might be, delivering a series of proposals that were greeted with disbelief by former colleagues in Brussels.
41% : Britain's departure from the European Union, he says, "was a lose-lose game with no added value for the United Kingdom or the EU.
40% : What he describes as the "lessons of Brexit" are central to his pitch.
40% : Stephen Barclay, who replaced Dominic Raab as secretary of state for exiting the European Union, later tried a similar tactic.

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