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“The UK wants to keep free movement of goods between us, but not of people and services. And it proposes to apply EU customs rules without being part of the EU’s legal order. Thus, the UK wants to take back sovereignty and control of its own laws, which we respect, but it cannot ask the EU to lose control of its borders and laws.”



That's the crux of it,and the tories know this. So you can only assume that this charade is being designed to lead us to a "no deal" scenario...or to force the EU to do a deal for us.