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10.17am BST
On the subject of the backstop, Jon Sopel, the BBC’s North America editor, has an imaginative solution.
This is an epiphany. But maybe this is solution to Irish #backstop issue for EU and @BorisJohnson - now that Greenland is off table, buy Ireland instead. The Americans LOVE all things Irish; great golf courses. Fine piece of real estate etc
What’s Boris Johnson’s big idea to replace the backstop? Allies tell me he wants a bilateral agreement with Ireland that will see Dublin diverge from EU rules temporarily to share a common rule book with the UKhttps://t.co/3jspe1TvYS
10.07am BST
Norbert Röttgen, chair of the German parliament’s foreign affairs committee and an Angela Merkel ally, has used Twitter this morning to restate his view (reported in our overnight story) that Boris Johnson would have been better off not writing the letter to Donald Tusk released on Monday.
New rhetoric coming out of Westminster has not changed Germany's position on #Brexit: as long as there are no solutions to the border problem on the table, there's no room for amending the #WithdrawalAgreement. "Flexible & creative" solutions is not enough! @BorisJohnson #Berlin
The letter to @donaldtusk is not a serious offer, and @BorisJohnson knows it. If Johnson really wanted to achieve something on his visits to #Paris and #Berlin, he would have been well advised against writing this letter. #Brexit #BorisJohnson @guardian https://t.co/7ig5qmZRHR Continue reading...