Has Juncker’s cabinet head inadvertently boosted Johnson’s leadership prospects?

PESTON'S POLITICS ROBERT PESTON

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. Credit: PA

The most revealing statement made today was a tweet by Jean-Claude Juncker's chief of staff, the German lawyer Martin Selmayr, that he and Juncker have “no interest in weakening PM”.

This was in response to the supposed leak in Germany’s FAZ Sunday edition of Juncker’s reflections on his dinner last week with Theresa May - which reported that the European Commission president viewed May as "anxious, despondent and disheartened" and in urgent need of “help” from EU leaders in Brexit talks.