The Attorney General is asking difficult legal questions about it which Dublin, Brussels, and even many in London would rather draw a veil over.
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When we bend the rules in our favour, we cheapen our country. We become, in effect, the colonial power that the IRA accuse us of being.
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“There was no mention whatsoever of any infrastructure, any hard border” in Dublin’s preparations for a WTO Brexit.
The words of Gordon Brown to Tony Blair echo in our ears. “There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe”.
We all want Brexit over and done with now, but the deal has to be the right one for our country.
There’s no guarantee that it would return a Commons supportive of any deal that May might put before it.
It should be about the relationships between towns, cities and regions, as well as between the four nations that make up our United Kingdom.
It would bring with it many compensations, including regulatory freedom, tariff income and £39 billion of cold, hard cash.
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The topic is being discussed – including at Cabinet – but that in itself is not convincing evidence that such a major change is imminent.
Former paramilitary fighters are out of prison. IRA killers have restarted their lives. Yet British soldiers face the threat of prosecution.