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Portrait of the week

Portrait of the week: back to the backstop, PC Harper’s death and the wrong kind of lightning

24 August 2019

9:00 AM

24 August 2019

9:00 AM

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Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, wrote to Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council, saying: ‘The backstop cannot form part of an agreed withdrawal agreement. That is a fact that we must both acknowledge.’ Mr Tusk said that those who opposed the Irish backstop ‘in fact support re-establishing a border.

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