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Important points on the meme “but even on no deal, WTO rules would stop the EU checking UK goods and food products at the border after Brexit because our rules would remain the same”.
And here are further thoughts on the meme.
TLDR: enforcement matters. It’s no use having the same rules on paper if they are not enforced in the same way and may be interpreted differently by different courts.
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Not happy phrasing by @EvanHD.
The interview was disappointing (and as @StevePeers points out there was plenty of good stuff on Twitter with which to knock gaping holes in the 30 “truths”).
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As said at the front, I helped with the legal aspects of this report.
Like all the choices that the U.K. has in front of it, an EEA/EFTA type arrangement involves trade-offs and political judgment about priorities. Views may fairly differ (and differ profoundly) about those.
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