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Suzanne Heywood book extract: 'I didn't know how much time Jeremy had, but I knew it wasn't long'
European Commission at last agreed that enough progress had been made for the UK to begin the next stage of the Brexit negotiations in January 2018. The joint report that they published to mark this step included the idea of an Irish ‘backstop’ – if the Irish border question couldn’t be solved through a trade relationship or technology, then the whole of the UK would need to maintain ‘full alignment’ with the rules of the EU single market and customs union.