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let‘s cross to westminster now — and speak to the former conservative foreign secretary sir malcolm rifkindlling to acknowledge that what he has proposed to the european union today is an important step in the right direction, and i think the government, the hard brexit people, is that —— as they are usually called, have made some very major concessions by agreeing that the whole of ireland should be a single regulatory space, notjust agriculture and food, a single day while ago, but now industrial goods asi while ago, but now industrial goods as i understand it as well. that‘s a big move by them. i think that‘s to be welcomed. it will still be incredibly difficult for the eu the irish government to accept because their definition of a heart border, what i have never agreed with, but their definition of a heart border isn‘t something that is hard, physical wall, or isn‘t something that is hard, physicalwall, orfences, it is almost anything that involves customs tariffs being checked on either side of the border. i don‘t myself believe that should be a barrier but they‘ve made it one and the