Given that we cannot know what is needed to make the Irish border work until we have sketched the outline of our future relationship, and regardless of the shortcomings of the backstop, is not this fixation on trying to find an alternative permanent solution to the border now a complete waste of time, energy, money and, ultimately, political capital?
Irish Border: Customs Arrangements
Proceeding contribution from
Paul Masterton
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 1 October 2019.
It occurred during Urgent question on Irish Border: Customs Arrangements.
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