Boris Johnson accused of 'insulting' Italians over Brexit and prosecco
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Carlo Calenda, a former Italian envoy to Brussels, said that the Foreign Secretary had told him that Italy would sell less prosecco if the European Union did not allow Britain to remain in the single market.
"He basically said, 'I don’t want free movement of people but I want the single market,'" Mr Calenda told Bloomberg Television. "I said, 'no way.' He said, 'you’ll sell less prosecco.' I said, 'OK, you'll sell less fish and chips, but I'll sell less prosecco to one country and you'll sell less to 27 countries.'
"He basically said, 'I don’t want free movement of people but I want the single market,'" Mr Calenda told Bloomberg Television. "I said, 'no way.' He said, 'you’ll sell less prosecco.' I said, 'OK, you'll sell less fish and chips, but I'll sell less prosecco to one country and you'll sell less to 27 countries.'
He said: "Somebody needs to tell us something, and it needs to be something that makes sense.
"You can’t say that it’s sensible to say we want access to the single market but no free circulation of people. It’s obvious that doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.
"There’s lots of chaos and we don’t understand what the position is. It’s all becoming an internal U.K. debate, which is not OK."
"You can’t say that it’s sensible to say we want access to the single market but no free circulation of people. It’s obvious that doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.
"There’s lots of chaos and we don’t understand what the position is. It’s all becoming an internal U.K. debate, which is not OK."
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