Theresa May finally beams at a summit as she swaps Brexit chaos for the Welsh mountains.
The beleaguered Prime Minister has endured a string of humiliating appearances at crunch Brussels showdowns.
But she managed to grin on a hill-walking holiday in Snowdonia with husband Philip.
The pair, wielding hiking poles, moaned about the weather before pulling out their packed lunches and tucking into a picnic as they took shelter behind a massive rock.
Mrs May complained to her husband: “Shame about the mist. I can’t see the view of Barmouth we were promised.”
It took the couple, shadowed by the PM’s protection officers, just over two hours to scale the 2,930-ft Cadair Idris peak in the Snowdonia National Park.
Meanwhile, 230 miles away in Westminster, Britain’s former EU ambassador warned Tory leadership hopefuls pledging to tear up Mrs May’s Brexit deal they will “wreck any prospect” of a future trade pact with the EU.
Sir Ivan Rogers issued the alert as potential candidates for the Conservative crown jostle for pole position ahead of a race for No10.
The ex-envoy, who quit in January 2017, told the BBC: “If various candidates make pledges as to the future direction of the Brexit talks, what they would do in phase two, that will essentially wreck any prospect of phase two succeeding.
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“So if people were to give commitments, saying, ‘When I’m in power, if you give me this job, I will reopen the Withdrawal Agreement’, and indicate we can’t possibly accept the Backstop and take a much more robust and bellicose position with Brussels - well, that leads fairly inexorably to a breakdown of the talks.”
Elsewhere, Nigel Farage was at war with UKIP over his former party’s “lurch towards extremism”.
The ex-UKIP boss and his successor Gerard Batten exchanged barbs as they fought for the right to be seen as the “true party of Brexit”.
It came as Leave supporters geared up for next month’s(MAY) European elections with Mr Farage’s new Brexit Party set to top the ballot.
UKIP’s campaign launch was overshadowed by claims Mr Batten had led the party to the far-right.
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Mr Farage, who is set to announce more candidates for his new Brexit Party next week, said: “As UKIP launch their Euro election campaign, they now have just three MEPs.
“The Brexit Party has 16.
“The lurch towards extremism has destroyed UKIP.”
Mr Batten’s party has been dogged by accusations of extremism since he ushered in far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, also known as Tommy Robinson, as an adviser.
The UKIP leader also flounced out of an interview after being grilled about his claim a candidate’s Twitter message to a Labour MP that he “wouldn’t even rape” her was actually “satire”.
In a message aimed at voters who might consider backing Mr Farage’s new vehicle, Mr Batten said: “UKIP is the authentic party of Brexit, the true party of Leave.”
Rubbishing Mr Farage’s influence in UKIP’s past success, he said it was “not the province of one man”.
In a further swipe at his Brexit-loving rival, Mr Batten claimed UKIP was a “real” party not a group of “rebel MEPs”.
Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg believed the new Brexit Party has “moderated” British politics.
He told the BBC: “I think the one really good thing about it is that it has taken votes away from UKIP now UKIP is allied to Tommy Robinson.
“I think Tommy Robinson reflects a type of politics that, I think, is unattractive and not usual in Britain, and that therefore in that way the new Brexit Party has moderated British politics from an extremist route that we were in danger of going down.
“Am I sorry they’re taking votes from the Conservatives?
“Yes, of course I am - I would encourage all people at all times to vote Conservative in all elections.”
Mr Rees-Mogg’s sister Annunziata was last week unveiled as a Brexit Party candidate for the May 23 poll.
