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we'rejoined by shankar singham — ceo of competere — a trade law and economic policy consultancy who hasrnment on trade deals and who supported brexit. there are two lines of thought in westminster today, that one is the british government is trying to force the crisis to shift the eu on its positions but the other is that there is a hard—line, pro—brexit government in westminster that want the hardest of brexit and this would be an excuse to collapse the talks, which do you think is the truth? i don't think either is the truth. i think the northern ireland article is full of inconsistencies and does require clarification, i don't think that with the government has done with the internal market bill is a repudiation or a disavowal of the northern ireland protocol, in fact i think these are very much—needed clarifications, and first of all in the area of the fact that northern ireland is negotiated under the protocol to be in the uk customs territory. there is to understanding of what that actually means, secondly that northern ireland to gp goods movements would not require, because they