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Larne NI
Barnier said

"(SPS) would have to cover 100% rather than 10% of live animals and animal-derived products, which would involve a significant change in terms of scale,"
There would have to be "administrative procedures that do not exist today"
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It’s Sammy Wilson’s constituency and a DUP stronghold.

He points to the arriving afternoon ferry telling (Faisal Islam) "there will be no border on that boat, no border in the Irish Sea", and "never" will he vote for a Brexit deal with a backstop as currently being discussed.
Larne is Brexit in microcosm.
A Northern Ireland port town of just 20,000, and yet for centuries on a key trading route. Brexit negotiation red lines cut right through the Irish Sea here.

....these waters look far trickier to navigate
Link to the full well written story from the excellent @faisalislam can be found here for those who don’t subscribe to Apple News.

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YouGov, 25,000 sample 21/12/18-4/1/18.

Remain v May’s WA, Remain leads by 26 points: 63% to 37%.

Remain v No deal
Remain 16% lead. 58% to 42%.

WRITE TO YOUR MP. THAT POLL IS HUGE. theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
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Nov‘18 Sir Craig readmitted Russia to International competitions saying

“I find it very hard to believe,” he found it very hard to believe, “that the guarantees, made to us by the Russian authorities, that they won’t deliver.”

He’d better believe it! theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan…
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Brexit is the backstop; the backstop is #Brexit.

After 3 days in Belfast, talking to all sides, here's what I've learned - on the business and the politics of this deal. And its viability.

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I talked to business lobby groups, Stephen Kelly from @ManufacturingNI fresh back from talks with Barnier. And bosses of big companies.

The are surprisingly sanguine. /2

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/…
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