Downing Street to brief foreign media on Brexit

Press quote (Financial Times)
01 December 2016

Charles Grant, director of think-tank the Centre for European Reform, said: “The people in Brussels are even gloomier than is perhaps justified about Brexit because their only source of information at the moment is the British media.” Recent strident coverage from Britain’s biggest newspapers “surreptitiously erodes the residual goodwill that [other EU countries] feel towards us”, he warned.