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sad to see Northern Ireland sink still further into the miserable swamp that lies between the surrender to the IRA, which we made in 1998, and the eventual handover of the province to Dublin rule, which is the inevitable end of all this.

The trade border in the Irish Sea is one of the most extraordinary shrinkages of British sovereignty I have ever seen, yet we are supposed to admire the agreement that led to it. How I wish we had done as I urged, and taken the Norway option. This humiliation, at least, would not then have happened.