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Brexit: 'EU could decide no-deal is the right solution'

Sir Ivan Rogers, former UK ambassador to the EU, opens up in his first TV interview since he resigned in January 2017.

Sir Ivan Rogers resigned a few months after the 2016 referendum and just before the Brexit negotiations began.

His farewell email to his fellow civil servants was promptly leaked. In it, he urged them to challenge politicians’ ‘ill-founded arguments and muddled thinking’. But who was he talking about specifically - and why did he resign 9 months earlier than he needed to?

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