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 and protocol or the Northern Irish protocol fully implemented.

I'm going to miss being the pantomime villain.

Hello and welcome to Brexit Republic RTEs podcast on Brexit.

I'm Tony Connolly, RTE's Europe editor in Brussels.

I'm Sean Wheelan, RTE's correspondent in London.

And I'm Colombeau-Mungown, RTE's Deputy Foreign Editor in Kildare. Each week, Brexit Republic assesses all the latest developments in Brussels,

London and Dublin. This week, David Frost launches his latest scheme to dismantle EU laws,

including rules on GMOs, while Boris Johnson hailed the return of imperial weights and measures

now that Britain was out of the clutches of the Napoleonic metric system.

We'll look in detail at what's involved and whether these will be symbolic gestures

or if they'll create a genuine divergence and standards between Britain and Europe.

We'll also assess the impact of Boris Johnson's Cabinet reshuffle

and what it'll mean for Brexit and the Northern Ireland Protocol.

And we'll take an in-depth look at the supply of medicines to Northern Ireland

and how that will shape up to be a defining aspect of how the protocol is implemented.

But first, Sean, to you, there has been a lot of denial that Brexit was about imperial nostalgia.

Imperial nostalgia has been, as I speak to you

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