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 Connolly, RTE's Europe editor at the EU Summit in Brussels.

And I'm Colombeau-Mungown in Dublin.

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

As the podcast is currently in transition, we're bringing you a special edition to look in depth

at the Windsor Framework,

which reboots the Northern Ireland Protocol, why unionists have rejected it, what it means

for the restoration of the Storm and Assembly and executive, and for the broader EU-UK relationship.

And we'll hear from our London correspondent John Kilrain on why Tory Eurosceptic MPs have turned against the deal,

which was supposed to win over the DUP, and finally bring about the restoration of the Northern Ireland institutions.

We'll also take a detailed look at the storm and break. What is it? How does it work?

And why the very thing which was supposed to overcome the protocol's so-called democratic deficit

has been rejected as useless by the European Research Group.

We'll have top-tier analysis on the storm and break from Lisa Clare Whitten of the Queen's University,

Belfast Brexit unit, but first, let's have a look at what happened this week.

Tony Rishi Sunak finally, it seems, got Brexit done,

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