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Good morning. In his interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg broadcast last night, Dominic Cummings, the key strategist behind the Vote Leave campaign and Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser, admitted that he could not be sure Brexit was a good idea. He said:
Questions like is Brexit a good idea? No-one on earth knows … what the answer to that is.
I think anyone who says they’re sure about questions like that has got a screw loose, whether you’re on the remain side or our side … I think it’s perfectly reasonable to say Brexit was a mistake.
Related: PM calls on EU to address Brexit issues in Northern Ireland on eve of new paper
In a move that officials called a “wholesale change of approach”, Lord David Frost, Cabinet Office minister, will outline a strategy that seeks to eliminate most of the checks on the Irish Sea trade border that came into force in January.
And in a warning that Britain could suspend the Northern Ireland protocol in its Brexit deal with the EU if the bloc does not give way, Frost will claim the UK is already within its rights to activate the article 16 override clause in the agreement …
