A ngela Merkel said on Tuesday night a detailed version of Britain’s post-Brexit plans must be worked out in the next month – but there has been no sign of any progress since the prime minister’s humiliation in Salzburg last week.

Following her defiant televised address on Friday, the tone of Theresa May’s meetings with officials from the EU are said to have been “frosty”, just as the two sides need to thrash out an agreement.