- The Withdrawal Agreement cannot be reopened
- The internal market “has to be preserved in its entirety”
- “If the Alternative Arrangements achieve the same goals (as the backstop) we don’t need the backstop”
- Could there be a NI/ROI border in the event of no deal. “Yes”
- “The British have to tell us the architectural nature of this border”
- Swipe at some brexiteer MPs, and Westminster in general, saying that some of them are forgetting history on Ireland, and they don’t get criticised enough because they’re in the mother of Parlaiments, which isn’t sitting
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(But he appears to be talking about the political declaration / not taking backstop out before brexit)