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Barnier: 'In the case of no deal in all scenarios the GFA will continue to apply. The UK will remain a co-guarantor. There will be no hard border. We have to respect the SM but also out of respect for UK internal market there are going to have to be checks carried out somewhere.'
Context on what Barnier means - he's talking about EU pledge to carry out as many checks as poss away from geographical border under no deal. But unlike in backstop checks would still be needed on everything crossing between NI/IE. Would still have to be physical infrastructure.
EU types thus perplexed by people in UK questioning why no deal planning can’t replace backstop, because they say it doesn’t fulfil anything like same function. One says situation would be ‘fundamentally different’ under no deal and there would be ‘great uncertainty’ for IE/NI.
