@ShankerASingham is three quarters right. The “single customs territory” language could go: it was inserted at the insistence of the U.K. Government to avoid GB and NI being in different customs territories (and applies some of the backstop to the U.K.).
He is also, I think, right that the EU would (probably) agree that commitment to stay in the single market and to maintain key elements of a CU would (once negotiated) count as “alternative arrangements” that would avoid the backstop.
If, though, he thinks that there is any prospect whatsoever of negotiating either (a) the “alternative arrangements” set out in his so-called “Better Deal” (including eg mutual recognition of standards); or
(b) removing from the backstop the customs provisions relating to NI, then, like the White Queen, he has managed the feat of believing six impossible things before breakfast.
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