Chris

I did; we call it the ‘Single Market’ but actually in world terms it ought to be known as the ‘protectionist market’. The rules that enforce so-called harmonisation of standards across member states also function to make it difficult for non members to sell into it. The difficulties that will arise in the movement of goods between GB and NI will be much the same as those between any other pair of territories where one is inside the single market and the other is not.

This, of course, is the reason Boris believes in the long term those arrangements can’t and won’t stand, because they create two very different regulatory systems within one nation state.