Not surprised whoever said this kept it off the record to preserve anonymity. Wonder if they had a straight face or whether they and the journalist were just in absolute bulk about them now saying it.
(Via Hugo Rifkind)
One of the things Brexit has shown me is just how abysmal many of our MPs are, nothing has happened to change my opinion, on the contrary, talk like this just shows how true it is. it's as if they have only got round to reading/understanding the WA they voted for back in December, maybe someones had to explain it to them, there is nothing contradictory, it's a solution to prevent a hard border in NI, the EU bent over backwards to stop the Troubles returning to Ireland, the Tories don't seem that bothered.
So the senior government official argues, the WA talks about protecting the integrity of the SM which is true, goods from uk into NI wont have tariffs charged but if those goods are then exported into the Republic then they will have tariffs added to protect the integrity of the SM. they say it talks about NI being given unfettered access to the UK market, maybe am missing something but wouldn't all that be up to the UK government, why would they need to check goods going from NI to the UK. so seems you can have both so no contradiction.
All the at risk goods were discussed in November , back to just how abysmal some of our MPs are, it's now September ,10 months ago, embarrassing.
Has someone told them they agreed to EU customs officers policing the NI/UK border yet.