Bertie Ahern also said that people voted for Brexit on the back of a campaign full of falsehoods

Theresa May has made “one calamitous mistake after another” and “has to bend” if she is to survive the Brexit process, according to a former taoiseach.

Bertie Ahern, who led Ireland from 1997 until 2008, said that Mrs May “should be arguing that the single market was made by British politicians and not saying that it’s great that Britain will be out of it”.

Speaking to the Welsh language political discussion programme Y Byd yn ei Le, Mr Ahern said that he “could never understand” British Euroscepticism when the UK’s contribution to Europe had been “immense”.

“Free movement has had huge benefits for the British economy, and for a huge amount of international companies,” he said. “The financial services industry [in Britain] wouldn’t be