Ever since Boris Johnson moved into 10 Downing Street vowing to renegotiate the UK’s withdrawal agreement with the European Union, the conventional wisdom among many Brexit opponents has been that the UK’s new prime minister is “doing a Varoufakis” and will be crushed in similar fashion.

The BBC’s Katya Adler reported from Brussels that EU officials spoke of “Varoufakis the sequel” – namely, “‘lots of pointless meetings’ with Prime Minister Johnson — as they believe was the case with Greece’s controversial finance minister at the height of the Greek debt crisis”.