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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that he will unveil his new plan for Brexit on Wednesday. An offer on a withdrawal agreement with the so-called " final bloc" of Europe, details of which will be given in the closing speech of the Congress of the Conservative Party held this year in Manchester.
With our correspondent in London , Muriel Delcroix
Take it or leave it: this is what Boris Johnson is about to say to the European Union on Wednesday when he will announce his offer on Brexit, an offer that will be to believe him first but also the last.
The prime minister should promise " a fair and reasonable compromise " during his closing speech in Manchester. But it should also warn that negotiations will stop if the 27 reject his plan.
On the eve of this show of force, the government has leaked the lines of its proposal in the very right and very pro-Brexit Daily Telegraph , according to which Boris Johnson will propose " two borders for four years " on the island from Ireland which will keep the northern part of the UK " in a special relationship " with Europe until 2025.
A " new radical plan " that will take into account the need for a border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the Irish Sea for four years and customs controls between the north and south of the island. This implies that Belfast remains partially in the single market until 2025 but will leave the customs union with the rest of the United Kingdom.
After four years, the Northern Ireland Assembly will be free to choose whether to remain aligned with the EU or to return to UK regulation, which by then will have diverged from Brussels. But if, as he expects, the Europeans reject this plan in block, Boris Johnson warns them: no more postponement, the Brexit will take place October 31 without agreement.
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