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What follows is not a conventional Tweet but a cry for help. Here is the conundrum. The EU says it cannot accept a new customs arrangement for the island of Ireland that is not legally operable. I don't think it will budge on that. But I cannot see how @BorisJohnson can...
deliver that requisite legal operability without alienating the DUP and perhaps 20 Tory Brexit spartans (and maybe more) - because all forms of legal operability are versions of the backstop they hate. So if he gives the EU what it wants, he guarantees that any deal he...
brings back is rejected by MPs. Now I am trying to believe that the current Brexit talks aren't an exercise in Beckettian futility. But I am struggling. If anyone out there is in a position to point out what I am missing, please say. Because I am struggling here
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The important vote tomorrow will be on the timetable or programme motion for the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, the law that must pass before Brexit. The government wants it on the statute book by 31 October. Labour will try to humiliate the PM by forcing a delay. One minister...
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.@Jacob_Rees_Mogg confirms there will be important second reading vote on the Brexit legislation, the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, tomorrow. And importantly that he expects entire bill to complete its passage through parliament by close of business on Thursday. Just three days...
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Speaker rules out @BorisJohnson's attempt to hold meaningful vote on his deal today. No surprise at all. He signalled he wouldn't allow this on Saturday
@BorisJohnson He says it would be "repetitive and disorderly" to hold debate and vote on the deal again today.
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Mehreen
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🔔New: UK this weekend presented a customs plan to EU that keeps NI in the UK's customs area and will involve tracking all goods entering NI. Differential customs treatment is applied on goods from 3rd countries depending on final destination (into SM or not)
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Boris Johnson’s #Brexit Border plan proposes a new customs border on the island of Ireland & customs posts at unspecified ’designated locations’

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EU diplomats I speak to view the no10 readout of the conversation between the PM and Angela Merkel as "Boris-on-the-campaign-trail" /1
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001/ [article content in this tweet series 001-180 reproduced with permission from Martin Howe QC of Lawyers for Britain @lawyers4britain]
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