A crisis of trust

“Relations are as bad as I can remember,” said Peter Ricketts, Britain’s ambassador to France from 2012 to 2016. “My sense is the French have lost confidence … in the British government as something to depend on.”

For Sylvie Bermann, France’s ambassador to Britain from 2014 to 2017, FrancoBritish relations “have never been this tense … In Paris there is a real absence of trust.”