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| Westminster – LIVE: Boris Johnson set for showdown with Theresa May after attack on PM's ‘crazy’ customs plan | Westminster – LIVE: Boris Johnson set for showdown with Theresa May after attack on PM's ‘crazy’ customs plan |
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| Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, has launched a public assault on one of Theresa May’s proposals for a customs partnership after Brexit as ‘crazy’ in a major intervention. | Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, has launched a public assault on one of Theresa May’s proposals for a customs partnership after Brexit as ‘crazy’ in a major intervention. |
| Mr Johnson said proposals favoured by the Prime Minister would create a “whole new web of bureaucracy” in remarks ahead of a Cabinet meeting at Downing Street on Tuesday morning. | Mr Johnson said proposals favoured by the Prime Minister would create a “whole new web of bureaucracy” in remarks ahead of a Cabinet meeting at Downing Street on Tuesday morning. |
| “It's totally untried and would make it very, very difficult to do free trade deals,” he said. "If you have the new customs partnership, you have a crazy system whereby you end up collecting the tariffs on behalf of the EU at the UK frontier." | |
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