Theresa May slaps down demands by the EU that the Brexit negotiations are conducted in French

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European People's Party leader Manfred Weber expressed anger that the UK was blocking some long-term EU defence measures.

He told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: "When somebody wants to leave a club, it's not really normal that such a member who wants to leave a club wants to decide about the future of this club. That is really creating a lot of anger, the behaviour of the British Government.

"It's about the long-term project of the European Union, and the Brits decided not to stay in.

"I think it's totally understandable if we, as Germans, as French, as Italians, think about our - not your - long-term project, please don't stop it, don't block it, because that will have a lot of impact on the Brexit negotiations if you do so.

"It's a question of behaviour, it's a question of respect. You want to go away from the centre of the European debate.

“It is not about institutions in Brussels, its about whether the British prime minister in the next years is still at the table, and the majority decided to not sit anymore on the centre of the European debate, and that is not good.”

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