Quote of the day

"He's saying things that are intellectually impossible, politically unavailable, so I think he's not offering the British people a fair view of what is available and what can be achieved in these negotiations."

Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Dutch finance minister and Eurogroup president, on Boris Johnson's public pronouncements about Brexit. As if we didn't already know the man's a complete fantasist.

(Thanks to Lyndsey for the link.)