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1/4 Listening to what the Prime Minister said today about the alternative arrangements she wants for the backstop is a re-run of last summer when the Cabinet discussed technology, trusted traders and the maximum facilitation proposal as a way of solving the NI border problem
2/4 The problem then was that these ideas didn’t go anywhere because the technology doesn’t exist, the EU described the plans as magical thinking and the Prime Minister ended up rejecting them.
3/4 It is therefore hard to avoid the conclusion that the Prime Minister had decided to go through the same process all over for reasons of party management rather than in the national interest.
4/4 What we actually need is for the Government to start listening on the changes that need to be made to the political declaration which deals with the most important question – namely our future relationship with the European Union.
