Andrew Marr returned to our screens this week after recovering from his kidney operation. His first interview was with Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Chairman of the European Research Group and currently the bookies’ favourite to be the next Prime Minister. Marr inquired as to how Rees-Mogg felt the government’s negotiations with the EU were progressing, particularly regarding the present stalemate over potential customs arrangements post-Brexit and the knock-on impact for the Irish border:
AM: [The Prime Minister] thinks this idea of ‘We’re not putting up a hard border, let someone else do it if they dare’… is irresponsible, and she’s said so much to you.
JRM: …I think that is a mistake. I think that’s the obvious negotiating position for us to have… If you are going into a negotiation, you should use your strongest cards and just to tear one of them up and set hares running on other issues is, I think, an error.
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