Friday, October 18, 2019

Morning meeting

All very breathless and exciting on the BBC1 bulletins at 6 and 10 last night, but today they must do better on some facts about the differences between this deal and the May deal. It is not enough to have one graphic about moving 'cars' from GB to NI, and then on to the Irish Republic. It is not enough to point people to the website.

Let's do a piece on the 'all-Ireland regulatory zone', the restrictions on changing VAT in NI; the composition of the committee who will set levels of financial support to NI farmers; the 'points of entry', that will be supervised by UK and EU officials; the definition of 'cross community support' required for the system to continue, and more.

After that, you can have your normal breathless pieces on trying to guess how the vote will go. Thank you.

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