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Originally Posted by Chris
He also said this week that he had done some thinking that he had not done before, and had begun to see Brexit as a process rather than as an event.*
What everyone seems to have forgotten is that once we are a sovereign nation state again we negotiate and sign treaties with the EU as a third party, not as a member obliged to accept the acquis.
Had the WA been the last word on our future relationship with the EU then it would have been a disaster, but it is not.
*Eurosceptic MEP Daniel Hannan has been making this point for years - he has always argued for gradual divergence from EU law wherever it suited us, rather than an ideological sudden break.
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It could be though without significant concessions to the EU. If we found it difficult to realise they held all the cards after all the backstop enshrines it in international law.
Unless the Tories plan is to sacrifice Northern Ireland at a later date.