Countdown to leaving the European Union
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Yesterday Boris Johnson wrote to Donald Tusk with his proposed changes to the backstop and the Brexit deal.
"The UK-EU stand-off over the backstop is no longer in the realms of negotiation. The topic has become a mutually incapacitating snare. The more forcefully one side stresses its position on the backstop, the more justified the other feels for not bending from its opposite bearing. And thus the noose tightens." writes Dr Katy Hayward in the The Irish Times
Northern Ireland has become emblematic of the UK’s Brexit project
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The backstop represents all that British Eurosceptics dislike about the EU
