would enable us to come out of the backstop would enable us to come out of the ba cksto p of would enable us to come out of the backstop of the backstop hadn't started, but we had been started down the route been in the backstop. i continue to say to my honourable friend and right honourable friends, it is the determination of this government and the european union that we will work to ensure that we have the future relationship are arranged and able to be in place by the 1st of january, 2021. arranged and able to be in place by the 1st ofjanuary, 2021. it arranged and able to be in place by the 1st of january, 2021. it is arranged and able to be in place by the 1st ofjanuary, 2021. it is not the 1st ofjanuary, 2021. it is not the case, and is indeed is not the case, that there is a sense in which the backstop is automatic. the backstop is not automatic. there are alternatives to the backstop. and the united kingdom can choose those alternatives. there are pros and cons in these. and...