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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
I cannot in any way read into what you quoted as comprising a Backstop of any kind.
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The detail is in the rest of the document. It is only about NI, so if everything about the backstop has gone, what is there to negotiate separately on? Whatever arrangements there are in that document can be ignored in the future, if a lack of good faith is demonstrated.
From 2 page explainer on the protocol.
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7. Both parties therefore believe that the backstop protects both the EU single market and the UK
internal market without prejudice to the future UK-EU relationship, as set out in the December
Joint UK-EU Report, and respecting the overarching requirement to avoid a hard border.
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