I love that there are massive rows already going on all over Twitter about whether it's Dublin or London that's capitulated, and whether Johnson's DUP and ERG allies will now feel let down, and whether there are enough Labour Brexiters to make up the numbers, etc - and...
yet we actually know almost NOTHING about what happened in the Wirral, other than that Varadkar and Johnson were locked in a room for three hours, and that they agreed the bleedin' obvious, which is that customs and the principle of consent for new arrangements in...
Northern Ireland are sticking points. As someone who has interviewed Boris Johnson quite a few times, and wrote columns for him at the Spectator 17 years ago, I regard it as highly plausible that Johnson implied rather more to Varadkar than he actually said. So if there is...
a reverse ferret here in a matter of hours, to the effect that the two sides remain as far apart as ever, please don't expect me to be surprised
