Well! Boris had dinner with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen last Wednesday evening, 9 December 2020, in Brussels. They were joined by Lord Frost and Michel Barnier, lead negotiators respectively for the UK and the EU. Turbot was on the menu, moot, given that the issue of fishing rights is part of the discussions over a post-Brexit free trade deal. Dessert was reported ironically as being pavlova, an Australian recipe. One wonders, whether the first course was Brussels pate; it was scallops
