It is indeed interesting that in October 2019 the UK government's own impact assessment on the Northern Ireland protocol simply states that there will be extra costs for movement of goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland. 
https://twitter.com/AntonSpisak/status/1418217238767702021
This section from Wednesday's UK government paper seems to be deliberately misleading - the further discussions were on the exact administration of the checks, not their existence, which were known.
The UK government knew in October 2019 of the checks that would be put in place on GB - Northern Ireland goods. To suggest otherwise is simply a lie. A lie which in turn, by blaming the EU instead, makes serious negotiation impossible, because there can be no goodwill.
Ironically as anyone who knows the EU well is aware, they don't behave particularly well in negotiations. To give them the moral high ground, as globally accepted, takes some doing. But the UK government's obvious deceptions have done so.
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