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 welcome to Brexit Republic, RTE's podcast on Brexit. I'm Tony Connell,

the RTE's Europe editor in Brussels. I'm Sean Wheelan, RTE's London correspondent in London. And I'm Colom O'ungown,

RTE's Deputy Foreign Editor in Dublin. Each week, Brexit Republic assesses all the latest Brexit

developments in Brussels, London and in Dublin. This week picking up the pieces after the G7. How much

damage did the Northern Ireland protocol do to Boris Johnson's big weekend out for global Britain.

And has the Biden administration's Damash moved the dial on Britain's attitude to implementing

the protocol? We'll hear the latest thoughts from David Frost to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee.

And from Mara Shefftiewicz,'s opposite number who followed in the footsteps of Margaret

Thatcher no less by delivering a speech on the EU and UK's future friendship at the College of Europe in Bruges.

We'll also look in depth at the UK's unexpected request to extend the grace period for chilled meats.

Is this the decisive moment when the unruly pupil suddenly turns polite?

But first, Sean, to you, you spent the weekend at the G7 last week. After we spoke on the Friday,

they had their respective press conferences on the Saturday. So how do the application of pressure

through the DeM marsh, the gentle

encouragement perhaps to say that alignment on SPS and public health standards wouldn't

impair the UK's ability to cut a trade deal with the US and the stern talking to delivered

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