UK preparing to submit Brexit deal proposal 'shortly'
2019-10-02 10:16:06 source：CGTN
October 1, 2019
The UK is ready to submit a new proposal to the European Union to secure a Brexit deal, Boris Johnson has said.
The Prime Minister said he would be making a "very good offer" and promised it would come "shortly." However he insisted that the details should be veiled in "decent obscurity" until the government would be ready to announce them.
Ireland's RTE had reported that the the UK had proposed to set up customs posts a few miles from the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The issue of how to manage that border has been the main stumbling block in negotiations so far, with the EU supporting Dublin's position that reimposing a hard border threatens a peace deal in place for two decades. London maintains that Northern Ireland's customs regime should be aligned with the UK mainland, not with its European Union neighbour.
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