It’s hard for tabloid journalists to engage in mad hyperbole when politicians seem all too willing to do it for them.
Clément Beaume, France’s Secretary of State for European Affairs, has just desperately threatened to turn off the power supply to Britain. Or as Bloomberg so delicately puts it, ‘to leverage [France’s] electricity supplies to the U.K.
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