First blatant non-sequitur of the #WhitePaper: FTA will give continued frictionless access at the UK/EU border.
Unless working assumption is that the 'friction' can be managed 'away from' the border, which is a distinct possibility.
Will keep reading...
It's a 'free trade area', but not as we know it.
Both 'the letter & the spirit' of @BelfastAgmt to be honoured in #Brexit.
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The UK will agree an operational legal text for a #backstop for NI... but will negotiate a future partnership that ensures that this will not have to be used.
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In keeping with Joint Report of 8th Dec.17
Request for joint institutional structures (ref. possible Assoc. Agmt) is interesting & marks progress.
Esp cos UKGov slides on Economic P'ship (24 May bit.ly/2N8McQE) implied UK wants deeper cooperation than others enjoy but minus the necessary institutional structures
If DUP/Tory alliance has done anything, it's made UK 'constitutional integrity' a favoured pat phrase for HMG.
& I would interpret what is meant here by 'constitutionally appropriate' as being primarily a political judgment/tactic.
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