[1andrew1]

Well done to Theresa May on getting Europe behind her at the European Council meeting in the dispute with Russia.

However, a year from now, the British won't have a seat at the European Council where she can persuade her peers to get behind Britain in our hour of need.

Ian Bond of the Centre for European Reform makes a good point. “If Mrs May had not been at the table yesterday, she would have been relying entirely on the leaders of France, Germany and others to make her point for her. That would have been a pretty tough thing to do. The French and Germans are obviously concerned about what the Russians are doing. But this isn’t their fight.”

Food for thought.