What are your "alternative arrangements " to the backstop. Because

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...this is all about the backstop. The backstop is why we haven't got a Withdrawal Agreement through Parliament. Yet.

In my view, if we have to Leave, NI should be a special economic area with a "border in the sea", that is any customs checks happening before/at arrival on mainland Britain from NI. DUP hates this. I think it's an opportunity for them to define NI as separate to Ireland before the inevitable demographic change makes unification the likely course.

What's your idea?

For the whole of the UK to remain in the customs union.

And if we stay in the customs union, why not stay in the EU and retain our voice at the table.

And if we stay in the customs union, why not stay in the EU and retain our voice at the table

Well quite. However, some people who voted to leave said they were happy enough with the "Common Market" but were unhappy about how much of a political union the EU has become. That suggests they'd be happy with us staying in the customs union. I would have thought that it would be an option to get the two sides to compromise on something and makes Liam Fox redundant which has to be a good thing