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The simmering row between the European Union and Boris Johnson over Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading arrangements threatened to boil over in Carbis Bay this weekend.
While the EU is not one of the seven countries of the G7 (that’s the UK, France, Italy, Canada, US, Germany and Japan), it was invited as a guest alongside leaders from Australia, India, South Korea and South Africa.
At the summit the prime minister held meetings with European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen, French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Angela Merkel as a “sausage war” dispute loomed with an effective ban on chilled meat shipments across the Irish Sea from Great Britain due to apply from July 1.
In an apparent reference to a difficult conversation with Mr Macron, the Prime Minister said some in the EU “seem to misunderstand that the UK is a single country and a single territory” and “I think they just need to get that into their heads”.
Mr Macron used his closing press conference to call for the terms of the Brexit deal to be respected.
Even though these discussion are essential some people were still left fuming that the EU had snuck their pesky noses into Johnson’s weekend in Cornwall.
Some tried to claim certain leaders were “not elected” during photo rounds.
Of course, the Queen definitely is not elected, but she rocked up.
And the EU funded the Eden Project.
John Redwood wasn’t happy, but then he never is.
They all seem to get along!
And finally they could have seen this car crash interview in the flesh.
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