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We are all sitting here wailing and gurning and gnashing our teeth because of the operation of that. Unfortunately, Prime Minister Johnson was given reason to believe that parliamentary unionism supported it, albeit there were caveats. He went ahead and did it. He pre-agreed it with Leo Varadkar in Wallasey in September 2019, and this was the outcome. In my view, those who agreed to it, supported it or thought it was a serious and sensible way forward have some answering to do. I have said this for years but the question in all of this, however much the noble Baroness is correct in her technical analysis of the specifics, is: how do we get out of it?