EU officials have until the weekend to look at the proposal, or otherwise accept the UK will leave with no deal
The plans landed in Brussels today and will try to replace the Irish backstop by creating a special relationship between Northern Ireland and theEU officials will have until the weekend to look at the proposal, or otherwise accept the UK will withdraw without a deal.
In his letter to President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, Boris said ‘both sides now need to consider whether there is sufficient willingness to compromise’ if Brexit is to be achieved before the October 17 European Council. He also wrote that the failure to reach a deal would ‘represent a failure of statecraft for which we would all be responsible.’Boris claimed the plan was ‘entirely compatible with maintaining an open border in Northern Ireland’AdvertisementThese include honouring the Good Friday agreement and placing Northern Ireland under UK customs territory at the end of the transition period.His proposal also involves ‘an all-island regulatory zone on the island of Ireland, covering all goods including agrifood.’ This would keep Northern Ireland in a regulatory zone with the EU for food, agricultural and industrial products, removing the need for checks, but with the EU carefully studying the details. This would have no time limit, although it would have to be renewed every four years by the Northern Ireland government, the proposal says.The Prime Minister made a speech at the Tory Party conference It also confirmed support for long-standing areas of UK-Ireland collaboration including the Common Travel Area and north-south co-operation. Boris claimed the plan was ‘entirely compatible with maintaining an open border in Northern Ireland’.It is thought the legal text of the new protocol will only be shared in the negotiating room and is not be made public. A withdrawal agreement between the EU and Theresa May, was rejected three times by UK Parliament, largely because of opposition to the Irish backstop. The Democratic Unionist Party have now released a statement saying they provisionally welcome Boris’ plan. Stressing that ‘further work’ remains to be done, they urged all those concerned to approach discussions with a ‘positive mind-set’.The new Brexit plan has now been handed to EU officials who reportedly have until the weekend to read it over The DUP have already come out in favour of the proposal, but Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was ‘worse than Theresa May’s deal’., starting on Tuesday October 8. This is supposedly to allow the government time to prepare for the Queen’s Speech, which will take place on October 14.if his Brexit proposal does not go down well in Brussels. He has continually stated his aim to ‘get Brexit done’ on the current Halloween deadline of October 31.supports HTML5 videoLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn stated that the proposal is ‘worse than Theresa May’s deal’, adding that he could not see it getting the support Boris ‘thinks it will get’.He said it will create a Britain of under-cutting and deregulation, adding: ‘I think it will also undermine the Good Friday Agreement.’ Corbyn continued: ‘At the end of his letter he says “and I’m sure this can all be agreed by the 31st of October”. I’m sure he knows full well that what he’s put forward is unlikely to be approved. ‘What he hasn’t acknowledged that he has a duty under the EU number two Act, the Act Of Parliament, that requires him to apply for an extension in the event of no agreement being reached.’
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