What the EU thinks of the different Tory leadership candidates

Politics Explained: With the candidates hoping to negotiate a new deal, the EU’s opinion could be important

Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, declined to pick a favourite Tory leadership candidate on Tuesday, saying nobody had asked his opinion. He argued that it was not for the commission to interfere in the leadership selection process.

But with most of the candidates hoping to renegotiate some form of Brexit deal, what the EU thinks of them clearly matters. How would the different candidates go down in Brussels and what do people think of them?

Boris Johnson