NEW: PM's Official Spokesperson on UK solutions to the backstop:
"We’ve brought to the table a number of areas where workable solutions can be found to remove the backstop including the all-Ireland Sanitary/Phytosanitary solution".
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"We’ve brought to the table a number of areas where workable solutions can be found to remove the backstop including the all-Ireland Sanitary/Phytosanitary solution".
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"The UK has also presented ideas in the areas of customs and manufactured goods and issues relating to the Political Declaration. The Prime Minister has said, that in terms of publishing those proposals, it's not helpful to negotiate in public in that way."
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"The UK has also presented ideas in the areas of customs and manufactured goods and issues relating to the Political Declaration. The Prime Minister has said, that in terms of publishing those proposals, it's not helpful to negotiate in public in that way."
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So the govt believes it has verbally (at least) put forward specific solutions to the EU. However they are not publishing them or putting them on paper yet. As Foreign Sec has previously suggested, this appears to (partly) be to avoid the chance of the EU shooting them down.
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MORE: PM's Official Spokesperson clear that UK has brought forward solutions to the EU...
"There are ongoing discussions but we have put forward workable solutions in a number of areas."
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"There are ongoing discussions but we have put forward workable solutions in a number of areas."
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This is what Foreign Sec Dominic Raab told @SophyRidgeSky last week:
"What we are slightly reticent about doing given past experience is putting pieces of paper which will get leaked and rubbished by the other side".
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"What we are slightly reticent about doing given past experience is putting pieces of paper which will get leaked and rubbished by the other side".
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