good evening the new brexit proposals
unveiled by Boris Johnson have already
provoked a wave of skepticism both at
Westminster and across the EU the Irish
government says it has deep concerns and
the European Council president says he
is unconvinced the main proposals relate
to Northern Ireland it would stay in the
EU single market for all goods and that
would mean accepting EU rules and
standards but crucially Northern Ireland
would leave the customs union and that
would mean new customs checks on the
island of Ireland but all of this would
depend on a future vote by the Northern
Ireland Assembly and that is a body
which is currently suspended our deputy
political editor John Pina has the
latest there is some flash photography
coming up Boris Johnson's looking
serious and no wonder can you get a deal
Prime Minister truth is he doesn't know
but he's planned to date
toned down the fighting talk in the
Commons statement Minister the speaker
wasn't attacking him for once sore
throat but today the PM's message I've
compromised now it's your turn we have
made a genuine attempt to bridge the
chasm to reconcile the apparently
irreconcilable and to go the extra mile
as time runs short
still the same warning though Britain
would leave with no deal if it had to if
our European neighbors choose not to
show a corresponding willingness to
reach a deal then we shall have to leave
on October the 31st without an agreement
and on the EU side today a deal looked
far from certain not a no from the Irish
leader on a visit to Stockholm but he
wasn't convinced the proposals that have
been put forward by the UK are certainly
welcomed in the sense that we now have
written proposals that we can engage on
but they do fall short in a number of
aspects there are plenty of doubts to
overcome the European Parliament's
brexit steering group said Mr Johnson's
plan breached agreed principles we are
very skeptical about these proposals
because mainly it is repackaging the old
proposals that have already been
discussed Boris Johnson's offer was
never likely to be bought by the EU as
it stands the Prime Minister's about to
take his case to European leaders hoping
they'll compromise in the end rather
than face the disruption of a No Deal
brexit if there is a deal and that's
still a big if the Prime Minister could
get it through Parliament though not
without a fight and not without help
from Labour MPs prepare to defy their
leader and vote alongside him
certainly nothing the PM says or does
seems it's all likely to get Jeremy
Corbyn onside no Labour MP could support
such a reckless deal that would be used
springboard used as a springboard to
attack rights and standards in this
country harp maybe for two reason may to
hear her brexit dealed rubbished and
then what Brick City Tories and
conservative outcasts praising her
successes efforts is the prime minister
to go to his GU colleagues with some
confidence and to tell them that there
is every likelihood if not certainty
that this proposition will command the
support of the House of Commons can I
welcome very much the the pragmatic
approach and the demeanor that the today
and look to our European neighbors and I
might say the leader of the Opposition
to respond in kind
inside Downing Street the Diaries full
diplomatic talks meetings with sceptical
MPs the Prime Minister can say he's
optimistic that doesn't guarantee a
happy ending John Pina BBC News
Westminster
well whatever might be finally agreed on
the border between Northern Ireland and
the Republic it will be the businesses
on the ground that will have to make it
work there's things stand many companies
say that they are worried about any
prospect of more regulations and customs
checks our Northern Ireland business
correspondent John Campbell explains
there's already a sort of border between
Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK
all live animals coming in from Great
Britain are checked at this inspection
post under the Prime Minister's plan
these checks will be extended to food
and other goods
that's because Northern Ireland would
continue to follow the EU standards and
rules needed to keep the land border
open the rest of the UK would not but
for businesses like this near the border
with the Irish Republic it's the other
part of the plan to do with customs
that's the big worry the proposal would
mean the whole of the UK leaving the EU
customs union that inevitably means a
new customs border in Ireland is this a
good dick well you know what a good deal
with new requirements for cross border
we would be exporting on our daily basis
to the Republic of Ireland and at some
times we would have orders for the
Republic of Ireland which would possibly
go to Donegal then come back in and
Strabane I can't imagine how we're going
to be able to put export orders and
Northern Ireland orders on the same
truck in the future Prime Minister
believes the impact of this customs
border can be minimized
instead of customs posts at the frontier
the border would effectively come here
to the factory or warehouse most customs
checks and formalities would take place
in the company premises but even if this
can be meant to work it will add cost
and complexity to cross-border trade
there are other worries for businesses
like this printing firm Northern Ireland
won't automatically follow the EU rules
necessary to keep the border open
instead the Northern Ireland Assembly at
Stormont will have to approve this
arrangement every four years I just
don't think that'll be accepted by the
European Union at all Stallman's not a
sovereign government it's a regional
government the European Union or only
works with sovereign governments and you
know we haven't had a storm an executive
for for a thousand days they can't
decide and very very small things hi and
God's name would we ever be able to get
them to decide on something as
significant as this how to solve
Northern Ireland's border issue has been
the question that's bedeviled this
brexit process the Prime Minister may
think he's found his answer much of
Northern Ireland business disagrees John
Campbell BBC News Londonderry
it hasn't just been the island of
Ireland north and south of the border
reacting to the Prime Minister's new
brexit proposals throughout the day
there has been reaction across the EU to
Boris Johnson's plans our Europe editor
Katia Adler joins us from Brussels and
Katia are we saying basically that
there's no hope for these plans as far
as Brussels is concerned well you could
say that the Prime Minister is stuck
between the rock and a hard place he
seems cautiously optimistic that the
majority of MPs would support his new
brexit proposed
but the EU doesn't and if he moves
closer to the e use position say over
customs then he risks losing support
from hardline brexit ears at home so now
what well the EU mood can probably best
be summed up in a tweets today from the
President of the European Council Donald
Tusk he said he spoke to the Irish Prime
Minister anti Boris Johnson today his
message to Dublin was that the EU fully
stands behind Ireland meaning that it
won't abandon Irish interests just to
get a deal and to Boris Johnson he said
that the EU remains open to his
proposals but unconvinced now the Prime
Minister's main eum boy is in Brussels
tonight and tomorrow trying to do some
heavy convincing and the EU Steve
braixen negotiator has a string of
questions for him you see the EU worries
that the Prime Minister's proposals
aren't legally watertight that they
exposed the European single market to
smuggling and that they put the Northern
Ireland peace process at risk Michel
Barnier says he wants to suss out the
UK's room for manoeuvre can Boris
Johnson budge any further and depending
on the answers he gets mr. Bernier says
he'll tell Germany and France and the
rest of the EU whether he thinks it's in
their interest to keep negotiating katia
once again thanks very much catcha adler
with the latest there for us in Brussels
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