BREXIT Britain is refusing to grant hordes of Eurocrats in London diplomatic immunity — to the fury of Brussels.
has turned down elite credentials to the EU’s new ambassador to the capital — because he does not represent a country.Credit: EPABut Joao Vale de Almeida, the EU’s first ambassador in London after Brexit, has not been given the same favoured status as other diplomats. EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell has written to Mr Raab directly to raise his “series concerns” about the situationCOVID UPDATENHS urged to add 'Covid tongue' to symptoms list as 1 in 5 cases missedMutant Covid strain is between 30-90% more deadly - but jab still worksDowning Street said the EU delegation would receive the "privileges and immunities" they needed to carry out their work in the UK.
But senior Tory Tobias Ellwood described the row as a "silly spat" and insisted the UK should be "better than this".Joao Vale de Almeida is the EU’s first ambassador in London after BrexitEither the EU is just a club of nations which never threatened our sovereignty, or it’s evolving into one giant country.
And since it’s insisting — so far in vain — on its ambassador having diplomatic immunity from UK laws, we must conclude that while pretending to be the former it really considers itself the latter.Landmark post-Brexit deal signed in Brussels
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