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Originally Posted by Damien
Well it's a deal to cover a interim period whilst an actual trade deal is sorted. It would be incorrect to say this was anything other than a temporary measure but nevertheless it's still a deal. Just depends what deal you're referring too. Obviously it makes no deal less likely due to the backstop, it's the central problem of the whole thing.
It's splitting hairs not to call it a deal. I am not arguing the merits of it at the moment.
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There isn't a proposed deal to put to the electorate in a 2nd referendum. There isn't a proposed deal that takes us into the future. There is nothing that can be accepted or rejected.
The word "deal" only appears once in the 599 pages of the Withdrawal Agreement.
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(i) requests in accordance with Article 39 of the Schengen Implementing Convention that
are received before the end of the transition period by the central body responsible in
the Contracting Party for international police cooperation or by competent authorities of
the requested Party, or by requested police authorities which do not have the power to
deal with the request, but which forward the request to the competent authorities;
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