When two ***'s meet in a narrow lane, there is an immediate halting of progress, neither will concede until someone intervenes.
You can command a horse, but one has to negotiate with a donkey.
Macron has met his match.
Bravo Boris, you have out manoeuvred them all, 27 nations have you in check, but no sign of the Monarch conceding to the fascists of Europe, God Save Our Queen!