PM Johnson: 'Today in Brussels we are tabling what I believe are constructive and reasonable proposals which provide a compromise for both sides. We will under no circumstances have checks at or near the border in Northern Ireland...
...We will respect the peace process and the GFA. And by a process of renewable democratic consent by the executive and the assembly of NI we will go further and protect the existing regulatory arrangements for farmers and businesses on both sides of the border...
...We will allow the UK, whole and entire, to withdraw from the EU with control over our own trade policy from the start, and we will protect our precious Union. This is a compromise by the UK and I hope very much that our friends understand that and compromise in their turn...
...If we fail to get an agreement because of what is essentially a technical discussion on the exact nature of future customs checks, when that technology is improving the whole time, then let us be in no doubt of what the alternative is...
...The alternative is no deal and that is not an outcome we want. It is not an outcome we seek at all, but it is an outcome for which we are ready.'
