This week’s joint UK/EU statement that they have agreed “on the way forward regarding the specific question of the EU's access to UK IT systems”, should fool no one into thinking progress is being made on recovering UK sovereignty over NI and reversing the detachment of this part of the United Kingdom.
An extra 400 million customs declarations a year could have to be issued under new post-Brexit border controls, it is understood.
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