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This is absolutely appalling
There has to be some Tory MPs - on the front bench and elsewhere - asking themselves why exactly they are sticking around having just witnessed that
Jo Swinson calls Johnson’s remarks about Jo Cox “sickening” and tells him to apologise immediately
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Adam Payne
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Big update: Asked about the PM’s response to Damian Green, his spox says there’ll be no “*new* physical infrastructure” under Johnson’s plan, which is a v important commitment. HMG’s position is that physical customs checks will take place in infrastructure that already exists.
New: A spox for the Manufacturing Northern Ireland tells me the idea that NI would not need any new infrastructure is "nonsense" and "not feasible or possible"

They say NI's existing customs infrastructure is at ports and many SMEs would have to drive miles to get clearance
Story: Northern Irish business group baffled by the PM's "nonsense" claim that customs checks won't require new infrastructure

"A food and drink company in Dungannon would have to drive 50 miles to Belfast" businessinsider.com/northern-irish…
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Adam Payne
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Johnson says that under his plan, physical customs checks in Northern Ireland would not take place “at or near” the border but at “trader premises” and “other points in the supply chain”
I can’t see any DUP MPs in the House of Commons for the PM’s statement
Corbyn points out that HMG had previously committed to no physical checks whatsoever. “I’m sorry, I’m only quoting what the government said.”
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Adam Payne
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Here's the key extract from Johnson's letter to Juncker setting out his proposal

Pretty much what @pmdfoster reported
@pmdfoster Before the end of the transition period (December 2010) and once every 4 years, Northern Ireland's democratic institutions would vote whether to maintain or ditch its regulatory alignment with the EU (the potential DUP veto)
@pmdfoster "This means that the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland will be a customs border. That does not mean that customs checks and controls need to take place at, or even near, that border."
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Today is possibly .@theresa_may's last day as PM, if .@BorisJohnson can command a majority (which is in some doubt...)

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And still there are Tory MPs who think they can remove the backstop from the withdrawal agreement.
Everyone is still having so much fun around Brexit that they're still not addressing the problem itself.
Europe has said you cannot take the backstop out of the withdrawal agreement.
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