Is Boris Johnson shifting on the backstop?

Their message was clear: there would be no breakthrough in Dublin when Boris Johnson met Leo Varadkar.

The idea would be for Northern Ireland to remain closely aligned with some single market and custom union regulations and there-by obviate the need for any checks and controls with the Republic. Secondly, Mr Johnson has hounded-out Conservative MPs who were opposed to his Brexit strategy and he no longer has a majority at Westminster.Both the Taoiseach and the British Prime Minister have agreed that optimal time for a deal to be struck, if it is to be struck, would be in mid-October at the next EU leaders' summit.

If the British Prime Minister was to accept the Northern Ireland-only backstop, he would be seeking something in return. After all, he has regularly described it as the 'anti-democratic backstop.' If an overall deal could be struck, it would banish the spectre of a crash-out Brexit - including the dire predictions of tens of thousands of job losses in the Republic.

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