if we're out of the single market, all i would say about that and here i think i disagree with ian paisley, is if we are honouring the agreement we reached in december and outlines with the eu on the terms of withdrawal i find it difficult to see how we will not be in a customs union because unless somebody comes up with some extraordinary technical

ian paisley, if you were in there today, lio seconds, what would be your opening gambit on the tradeink the prime minister has spelt out tonight that this is about the british people being in control of their own destiny. we want to make sure we have a free trade relationship going forward with the eu. given that they have as much to lose in a bad deal as we have to lose this is about getting a good deal for all of the british people and we need to stop being so negative about this, so pessimistic. i am sorry. i just want to hear. i don't want to be political, i want to hear your practical suggestion for customs union and regulatory alignment. what is your pitch, not to theresa may, what are you telling her to take to the europeans? we want to get a really good fisheries deal, that is key for us. the key thing is, trade and... at the end of the day, money makes the world go round and trade here will determine the drive and politicians like us and everyone else want to have a good trading deal and a good relationship. is canada ok for you, a canada type deal? i think it's daft to say

in the days of mcguinness and a reverend ian paisley. the chuckle brothers they were called.ody laughing now, that's the case. in a slightly wicked way i couldn't help finding peculiarly amusing the idea that theresa may's dup partners have been quite so catty, i think about her involvement with trying to get this show back on the road, saying quite publicly her trip there yesterday was less than helpful. they said it was a distraction. less than helpful. you feel you don't need friends like that, what enemies do you need? it centres on the irish language, use of the irish language on signs and so on. i agree with joanne, it indicates what an arm lock the dup has the conservative government in. they can do whatever they like, they'll still get their billion pounds to be part of the tory voting system. and they can really play hardball over the irish language. they say the unionist community is horrified by the idea britishness would be hollowed out if you got irish street signs and gave it equal respect given to the english language. they are able to ta ke english language. t

full strength echoing an old war cry from dr lee in paisley i thought it was ian paisley who led. the government to thing in contrast in a later interview jim shannon pretty uncompromising i think there are three options in the table that one of those getting her possible birthday and that's the fact that we could probably get by the northern assembly it works well there's nothing that the killer that's going to help at this moment and the second one is as direct will which will be a clear direct role. from from here from london on the third one i think which is a possible it is a half way house where they were just pay the register their office they were just there a neighbor come a consultative body to oversee a government departments and their real. unsafer they. to the ministers on a friday at westminster where they say the papers probably were looking. this is the second week of our chile to an island in the wise words or form a t. shirt bertie ahearn resonate like the ghost of christmas past for today's amazed government this hugely expedient statesman confirms that the good

have to remember about the dup that two thirds of its members are extreme free presbyterians, the ian paisleyt of strong language! i mean, that's all right — i tend to refer to religions in general as cults. as long as you are across the board because otherwise, we're going to get the blame on this. i'm a humanist. it is the largest party in northern ireland. it's the largest party but only 0.6% of people in northern ireland are actually free presbyterians, so they do represent something very extreme. in the same sense that sinn fein doesn't really represent nationalist views either. we have ended up with the two most extreme parties who don't represent in all... crosstalk. ..what people actually feel and where they stand. it is a misrepresentation of the real state of being. very interesting, and what is so interesting as well, just in terms of the african angle, is of course cyril ramaphosa, who we were just talking about a moment ago, he once played a role in bringing sides together and inspecting ira arms dumps, so is there a role for outsiders at this point, do you think? i don't think h

for strength echoing an old war cry from dr the imperiously i thought it was ian paisley who led. the government to. in contrast in a later interview jim shannon pretty uncompromising i think there are three options in the table that one of those getting. possible but then that's the fight that we could probably get by the northern assembly it works well there's nothing that the killer that's going to help at this point and the second one has as direct will which will be a clear direct role. from from here from the on the third one i think which is a possible it is a half way house where they were just pay the register their office they were just there a neighbor come a consultative body to oversee a government departments and then real. unsafer the. to the ministers on a friday at westminster where they say the papers probably were looking. this is the second week of our chile to an island in the wise words or form a t. shirt party hard resonate like the ghost of christmas past for today's amaze government this hugely expedient statesman confirms that the good friday agreement is

island, european union, recognizes the difficulty of the issues and they will be effective -- >> ian paisley. >> does my time and government demonstrate that no surrender. [inaudible conversations] >> mr. speaker. may i just say to my right honorable friend would stand up to anyone and everyone when it comes to making the best interest of the united kingdom. >> finally. order. too much noise in the chamber did. >> thank you mr. speaker. the good friday agreement was one of the greatest legacies of the last labor government. messing up the border issue could mean that destroying the good friday agreement to be one of this government legacies. >> mr. speaker, i assure the honorable lady that [inaudible] paused and december of this year united kingdom and the european union makes it clear that the debt belfast agreement remains intact and all of it is part of will remain intact. >> order. questions to the prime minister. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i know the whole house will join me in paying tribute to captain dean who died in a traffic accident in iraq on the first of generate. it was not his

and for good measure the dup have now thrown their weight and, we had from ian paisley have now thrownaisleer and the select committee upstairs seeing a short time ago that he wanted mrs may to show some teeth over this issue and saying he was disgusted by the proposal being put forward by the proposal being put forward by the eu. by the stars and just for good measure this morning said that he thought people were using the border issue to frustrate brexit. the issue of the northern ireland border is being used quite a lot politically to try to keep the uk in the customs union, effectively the single market so we can't leave the eu. that is what is going on. so what the letter says is that actually there are very good solutions you could put in place that would obviate, prevent any kind of ha rd that would obviate, prevent any kind of hard border but would allow good people, alo goods to move freely without let or hindrance. balderston referring to the leaked letter overnight which he wrote to fellow members of the brexit cabinet subcommittee on which he a beautiful idea that maybe the