May praised for "Churchillian" vision as Europe talks tough on Brexit

Press quote (The Telegraph)
18 January 2017

Charles Grant, the director of the Centre for European Reform, said that parts of the EU were worried that Mrs May was being deeply unrealistic and that - like David Cameron's bold promises to reform Europe during his Bloomberg speech of January 2013, was setting herself up to fail. "The European Commission and some EU governments are adamant that they wont talk about future trade arrangements until they've completed the divorce settlement," Mr Grant said, "I wonder why May has given such a bold and ambitious statement that could rebound and hurt her in the future."