‘Preposterous rubbish’: The EU’s verdict on Boris’s Brexit plan

I asked important EU and UK people involved in Brexit talks what they made of Boris Johnson’s claim on BBC that:

1: The EU would be prepared to cancel the Northern Ireland backstop.

2: Continue free and frictionless trade with UK for an “implementation period” after Brexit on 31st October.

3: Negotiate a new package of measures to keep an open border on the island of Ireland during the implementation period, and;

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4: Would break all their own red lines because they won’t like Nigel Farage’s 29 MEPs turning up at the European Parliament, and will panic when Johnson says he won’t necessarily pay all the £39bn Theresa May agreed that the UK owes the EU in full, or on time.

This is what one influential EU figure said:

“I hear a herd of unicorns trampling around”

And another said:

“Preposterous rubbish”