Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The backstop is no secret. The backstop, or at least the draft backstop, was published back in March so anyone can see in black and white what that means. It means applying the rules of the customs union and the rules of the Single Market to the extent they applied to the all-island economy. I should not need to elaborate on it. The EU published our draft of the backstop back in March. That has not been accepted by the UK Government so we now need to negotiate. As I have always said, we are flexible on the language but we cannot be flexible on the outcome.

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