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Leo Varadkar has just given the "brexit deal" his qualified blessing at Leaders Questions this morning in The Dáil.

BUT...

... if the deal meets Irish requirements it must contain a Northern Ireland backstop, so almost by definition it will not meet the DUP's red lines. Or if it does, then it's a whole-UK backstop which cannot meet the ERG's red lines.

I have no idea how this is going to get through the UK parliament. But I'm eager to see Theresa May try.

I'm surprised that Ireland have supported it, unless May just gave up and said ok to whatever. It's kind of strange to see many remainers and leavers all agreeing in wanting this to fail.