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In these times of angst about Europe, Britain and national identity, we can sometimes forget to celebrate our cultural differences.
Well, here’s one example of magnificently dismissive continental gesturing even the most Brexity of Brexiteers couldn’t fail* to giggle at.
On the BBC’s Politics Live, Pascal Lamy, the former director-general of the World Trade Organisation, showed Iain Duncan Smith what he thought of his imaginary “alternative arrangements” to the backstop in the Withdrawal Agreement. Frenchly.
Watch it here:
Former WTO director general Pascal Lamy does not look impressed with Tory MP Iain Duncan Smith talking #Brexit#politicslive https://t.co/bhZ5P8BI7h pic.twitter.com/CugnvDuWwo
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) April 29, 2019
*They will.