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We know that there is another way of managing the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland that does not involve disenfranchising anyone and which respects the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom. That, of course, is mutual enforcement. Surely our newly elected Government, rather than parroting the same old line of the previous Government, should insist that that solution be discussed now and all their relationships reset—which I know is the great new word about what will be happening with the European Union. I have no doubt that the EU would respond by saying that it prefers the Irish Sea Border way of managing the border—I wonder why?—over mutual enforcement. But, as the honourable Member for North Antrim, Jim Allister, wrote in the Telegraph Brexit Bulletin after his mutual enforcement Bill had its First Reading last week in the Commons, if the EU continues to insist on the Irish Sea border as if mutual enforcement did not exist, it