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. 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 in Brussels.

And I'm Colombeauengine, RTE's Deputy Foreign Editor in Dublin. Each week,

Brexit Republic brings you all the latest developments in Dublin, Brussels and London. This week,

the hokey-cocke of British politics continues. Liz Truss is out of Darning Street. Rishi

Sunak is in. We'll assess what impact the new Prime Minister will have on EU-UK relations

and critically on the Northern Ireland Protocol Negotiations.

We'll have an update on where those negotiations are at and whether Britain's brutal subjugation by the bond markets will force Rishi Sunak into a more flexible frame of mind on the protocol.

Not if the DUP can help it.

Good as their word, the party decided not to interstorm it

before the midnight deadline on Thursday night,

which means an election is on the cards in the north,

but we don't know yet exactly when.

And we'll hear from the Brexit team at Queen's University, Belfast,

on the latest attitudes to the Northern Ireland Protocol.

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