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The Spectator's Notes

Jean-Claude Juncker is stale, grey and likes his booze. That's why Cameron should back him

Plus: Why Juan-Carlos abdicated, and my wife's magnficent moth-counting

7 June 2014

9:00 AM

7 June 2014

9:00 AM

David Cameron is surely right to think that Jean-Claude Juncker is not the man to relieve the European Union’s woes, but I wonder if it is worth a fight. It reminds me of a similar battle by John Major, in 1994, to prevent a fat Belgian called Jean-Luc Dehaene from getting the job, on the grounds that he was too federalist.

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