How Ireland Outmaneuvered Britain on Brexit
Irish diplomats set the terms of the Brexit talks long before the British caught on. Here’s how they pulled it off.
British Prime Minister Theresa May and Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny in his office in Dublin, where a portrait of the Irish revolutionary Michael Collins hangs.
Photographer: Charles McQuillan/Getty ImagesThe day after former U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron unveiled his plan for a Brexit referendum in January 2013, he grabbed his Irish counterpart Enda Kenny in a VIP room in Davos.
Cameron told Kenny he had to hold the vote, according to one of the people with them. But there was no reason to worry, everything would be okay.