Cliff Taylor: The Brexit backstop is dead, long live the backstop

So we are heading back towards a version of the original Northern Ireland-only backstop but with some complications. The original backstop plan was neat because it carved out the North and left it effectively in the EU trading bloc, thus avoiding the need for Irish border checks.

The risk for the Irish Government is anything emerging that appears to put a time limit on the new arrangements However, the recent Johnson plan – now ditched – appeared to offer the DUP something akin to a veto on entering regulatory alignment with the Republic.

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