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Boris Johnson has tabled his own plan for Brexit, arguing that the UK should "push the auditors" and negotiate a "Super Canada" free trade agreement instead.
The former foreign sectarian, who abandoned Theresa May's Checkers Brexit plan, described her strategy as "moral and intellectual humiliation."
He stated that his vision would not lead to a difficult Irish border, with checks outside the crossing.
The prime minister said his plan was the only one that would avoid digging the UK.
The BBC political correspondent, Jonathan Blake, said that there was little novelty in Mr. Johnson's intervention, but the timing – on the eve of the Conservative Party conference – was important because the prime minister was under new pressure from his own deputies.
The UK must leave the EU on March 29, 2019. Parliament will vote on any withdrawal agreement, if it is agreed, before the end of the year or at the beginning of the year. next year.
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In an article for the Telegraph titled "A Better Plan for Brexit", Mr. Johnson wrote that there had been "a collective failure of the government and a failure of the British establishment's willingness to fill the mandate of the people ".
He said that Checkers' proposals – which would keep the UK closely aligned with the EU on trade in goods – represented "the intellectual mistake of believing we can be half or half" of l & # 39; EU.
This, he said, was a "democratic disaster" and was going to "deceive the electorate" when it was applied.
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Boris Johnson left the government because of May's plan Checkers
He proposed a more flexible free trade agreement, "at least as deep as the one the EU has recently concluded with Canada".
This would imply:
- "Dummies and zero allowances" for all imports and exports
- Mutual recognition agreements covering UK and EU regulations to ensure 'products conform to standards of each other'
- technological solutions to ensure the proper functioning of supply chains
- an agreement covering goods and services
Mr Johnson also argued that it should be "relatively simple" to negotiate membership in the EU's airspace, with a process of mutual recognition of rules and a mechanism Dispute Resolution.
On the issue of Northern Ireland, he said that any "additional procedure" could be conducted far from the border with Ireland.
But Johnson said the UK should "buy time" to negotiate such an agreement, stressing the need to extend any transition period beyond 2020.
Ms May presented her proposals on the key issue of future trade with the EU after an audit summit in July.
But some Brexiteers have sharply criticized the project, saying its plans for "common rules" on products would undermine UK sovereignty.
About 40 conservative Brexiteers said they would oppose his project if it was a vote in Parliament.
And European leaders warned last week that key elements of its strategy were not viable.
Ms May rejected previous suggestions that checks could be made outside the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, insisting that any control system was "always a difficult frontier".
"You do not solve the problem of the borderless having a tough border 20 km inside Ireland," she told the BBC last week.
