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If you are a sucker for how UK is trying to persuade EU to change the backstop, this is a useful thread - and in a lot of detail, what UK means when it says they can see ‘broad shape’ of a deal
And it’s worth saying whatever rhetoric is, as per this thread and multiple sources there are proposals being talked about - what there is not is any text that UK is willing to publish - or much confidence on EU side they will ultimately fly
One diplomat worried Johnson’s team ‘doesn’t understand the mechanics properly’ and have ‘lack of knowledge about what is possible and impossible’
They conclude in the end it’s ‘almost impossible - expectations just won’t match’
