The Irish Deputy Prime Minister, Simon Coveney, says that the approach to Brexit taken by Boris Johnson makes a no deal exit more likely.
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Simon Coveney, the Irish Republic deputy PM and foreign affairs minister, said that by demanding that the Irish backstop is removed from the Withdrawal Agreement, Boris is just making a no deal Brexit more likely.
"There is a reason," said Mr Coveney, "why Boris Johnson is visiting Berlin today and Paris tomorrow, to try to talk to EU leaders about finding a way forward.
"I think he will get a very consistent message from EU leaders that the negotiations over the last two to three years are not going to be abandoned now."
But he did go on to say that attempts would be made to try and find a way to give the reassurances and clarification that Boris would need to sell the deal to Parliament and the wider UK, saying that "We will try and be imaginative about that and be helpful on that."
Well, firstly I've got to say that trying to resurrect that doomed Withdrawal Agreement surrender treaty is a mistake, unless it's just a distraction ploy.
And secondly, any talk by Coveney about 'reassurances and clarification' is just code for providing a snow job by tweaking the political declaration and maybe tacking a couple more codicil documents on to the Withdrawal Agreement that amount to zilch in legal terms, but try to make the backstop appear more palatable.
But all that has been tried before, and the Withdrawal Agreement surrender treaty is so bad that nothing ..
