Senator Philip Ozouf added that the code of conduct group in Brussels, which met last week to decide whether the policy was ‘harmful’, had only commented on a minor aspect of it.
In effect, he said that no news was good news and insisted that his interpretation of the situation was correct.
Critics of the zero-ten policy, including Jersey Democratic Alliance president and former Senator Ted Vibert, have said that the group deemed the policy harmful on three significant grounds.

