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The second sentence is untrue (there is certainly no evidence to support it, and much evidence of no coherent U.K. proposal to replace the agreed backstop). See eg . The third sentence is untrue.
The next few sentences on the Bill ignore the ability of Parliament to deal with any outrageous EU condition by allowing a crash out in those circumstances (by further emergency legislation if needed).
And as for the claim that delaying Brexit costs billions see
The issue is, as always, whether it’s he or Parliament who decides on crash out.
As Johnson says, the issue is about trust: but it’s about whether you trust Johnson to take without Parliament’s control the decisions on crash out. One can see, though, why Johnson does not put in those terms.
The remaining calls for an election ignore the overwhelming practical problems that would cause both for EU negotiations and for crash out preparation.
