'If the Attorney General persists in claiming that “there’s nothing to stop us removing ourselves from” a customs union, then he needs to explain exactly how we can escape from the backstop trap'
In an interview with Laura Kuenssberg on 3 April 2019, Geoffrey Cox claimed that if, “in some considerable years time”, we wanted to leave that customs union then “there's nothing to stop us removing ourselves from that arrangement, so we can't look at these things as permanent straitjackets upon this country.”
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