‘Lying politicians lead UK to no-deal Brexit’

Bloomberg

The UK’s former ambassador to the European Union blasted the “denial, delusion-mongering and deception” in British politics, which he predicts is leading the country to a damaging no-deal Brexit.
Ivan Rogers, who served as Theresa May’s envoy in Brussels until 2017, attacked the political elite “which has great difficulties discerning and telling the truth.”
All the candidates in the Tory leadership race, except one, have said they want to renegotiate the Brexit deal. Boris Johnson, the front-runner, has also vowed to take the country out of the bloc on October 31 — whether or not he manages a renegotiation. Rogers was set to be one of the UK’s main Brexit negotiators until he resigned after falling out with May’s top advisers.
The former envoy said he doesn’t expect the EU’s remaining 27 nations to offer a different Brexit deal — and not one that inserts a time limit or a unilateral exit clause on the most contentious part of the agreement, the so-called “backstop” for the Irish border.