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By virtue of the UK leaving the European Union,

this border between North and South and Ireland becomes the external border of the European Union.

The question is, in terms of customs and regulations,

what you do on this border and the existential problem for Northern Ireland

is if you put up some sort of physical infrastructure,

it has the potential to be torn down and raise all of these identity questions that people have been able to avoid in the context of the EU.

I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast July 28, 2018.

The British government is falling apart, Brexit talks are on the rocks,

and into the mailstrom walks Donald Trump to walk in front of the Queen after having tea with her.

It's been a bad period in the Brexit negotiations,

and we gathered a gang to talk it through.

Two of my Brookings colleagues, Tom Wright, the director of the Centre for the United States in Europe,

and Amanda Slough, the Robert Bosch senior fellow in the Centre for the United States in Europe,

Cannon took Gawa Mercer from the Hoover Institution and LawFair,

the Lord High Brexacutioner of LawFair, as we call her.

We talked about Northern Ireland, we talked about trade, we talked about US policy,

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