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DUP Confirms It Won't Back The Brexit Deal Announced Today

Jonathan Duane
Jonathan Duane

01:40 17 Oct 2019


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A Brexit deal has been reached but the DUP isn't happy with it.

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The DUP says it has serious concerns about the plans for customs in Northern Ireland, and will be unable to support the Brexit proposals in the House of Commons.

It says the proposals are not beneficial to the economic well-being of Northern Ireland and they undermine the integrity of the Union.

The DUP claims it's an EU veto on what goods would be tariff free.

The party acknowledges some progress has been made on the issue of consent but says Northern Ireland having no say in entering the arrangements is a problem.

The party claims that drives a coach and horses through the professed sanctity of the Belfast or Good Friday Agreement.

So as Newstalk's Political Correspondent Seán Defoe reports, it's a no from the DUP and the parliamentary arithmetic in the UK suggests this deal will again be shot down.


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