To EU’s leaders, poison released by David Cameron’s Brexit blunder has lost its sting
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton met his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba during a surprise two-day visit to the country
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For many of Europe’s leaders, Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton will always be remembered as a gambler who called an unnecessary vote on his country’s future and then proceeded to lose it. Yet to most of them the Brexit referendum already seems like ancient history as the new foreign secretary seeks to build on a recent improvement in Britain’s relations with the European Union.
“Europe has moved on,” said Jacob Kirkegaard, a senior fellow in the Brussels office of the German Marshall Fund, a think tank. “People here agree Cameron was probably one of the most disastrous prime ministers that the UK has had for many years, given how his premiership ended. But that’s not necessarily something that will jeopardise his new role.”
The appointment
