EU chief negotiator and professional Britain basher Michel Barnier has delivered his Brexit timeline:

March 2017: Article 50 notification

October 2018: Brexit deal agreed

March 2019: Ratification

Barnier says there is no negotiating room on the four freedoms, in other words we cannot retain single market membership and end freedom of movement. As Brexiters have been saying all along. Barnier’s hardball position is “no cherry-picking”. Again Brexiters should remain calm, Theresa May’s position is to walk away and back a Clean Brexit if no agreeable deal is reached…