Brexiteers were rewarded in the list of Boris Johnson’s honours, which has been criticised for rewarding ‘cronies’.

The hard-Brexit lobbying group, which produces research paid for by taxpayer-funded expenses, appears to be losing support.

Further questions have been raised over Tory links to the European far-right after one of the party's MPs endorsed a conspiracist group on the fringes of French politics.

If politics trump economics, neither Brussels nor London may have much incentive to get any agreement.