In all areas, the UK continues to backtrack.

The European Union argues that we should be subject to rules of the club that we have left.

The precondition is the level playing field.

We can deliver a real Brexit that achieves our objectives.

But if there is not a deal, we still need the Irish protocol or the Northern Irish protocol fully implemented.

I'm going to miss being the pantomime villain. Hello. protocol or the Northern Irish protocol fully implemented.

I'm going to miss being the pantomime villain.

Hello and welcome to Brexit Republic, RTE's podcast on Brexit.

I'm Tony Connolly, RTE's Europe editor normally in Brussels, currently in Rome. I'm Sean Whelan, RTE's correspondent in London, but this week I'm in Scotland.

And I'm Colombeau Mungown, RTE's Deputy Foreign Editor, normally in Dublin and currently in Dublin.

Each week, Brexit Republic assesses all the latest Brexit developments in Brussels, London and Dublin.

This week, the sense of an ending.

On the very day, the European Parliament

finally ratifies the Brexit Future Relationship Treaty, Arlene Foster resigns as leader of the

DUP and as First Minister. We'll take a detailed look at the role Brexit played in the political

demise of Arlene Foster with RTE's Northern editor, Vincent Kearney. And we'll be hearing from Sean, who's been travelling

the highways and byways of the troubled

United Kingdom on the impact of

Brexit on the upcoming Scottish

and Welsh elections. But first,

we're going to play a short

sting and we'll be back with Vincent Kearney on

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