EU dismisses Johnson's call to scrap Brexit backstop
Referencing Mr Tusk's latest tweet, Ireland's foreign affairs minister Simon Coveney said:"This has been the clear and consistent EU position, it remains so."
"Otherwise, as we have said on many occasions, we do stand ready to work constructively with the UK and within our mandate." If it kicked in, the UK as a whole would remain in a customs union with the EU, while Northern Ireland would follow further EU rules and regulations in order to keep the border with Ireland - an EU member - frictionless.
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