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No deal?  The UK is already saddled with a ruinous deal

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Melanie Phillips
Sep 14, 2020
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I’ve been trying to make sense of the great row over the Brexit withdrawal agreement and its Northern Ireland protocol. This is not a happy experience. Not to put too fine a point on it, what the British government is actually saying makes no sense at all. 

That’s because the prime minister, Boris Johnson, who after the Brexit referendum famously declare…

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