So when you come out
of the EU customs union,
which is what we've done,
you have to have some way
of checking that goods
that might attract a tariff
going from the United Kingdom
into Ireland pay that tariff,
if there is to be a tariff.
The only place you can do it,
if you don't do it at the border,
is at the border in Northern Ireland.
There will not be tariffs or checks
on goods coming from GB to NI
that are not going on to Ireland.
That's the whole point.
And the great thing that's been
misunderstood about this is
there will not be checks ...
There will not be checks –
and I speak as the prime minister
of the United Kingdom
and a passionate unionist –
there will not be checks on goods
going from Northern Ireland
to Great Britain
because we're the government
of the United Kingdom
and we will not institute
or implement or enact
such checks.
And the idea that Tato crisps
from Tandragee Castle
are going to be [unclear]
by some process is just nonsense.
So actually Northern Ireland
has got a great deal.
It's got a great deal.
You keep free movement,
you keep access to the single market
but you also have, as it says
in the deal, unfettered access to GB.
We can also come out and do
free trade deals, so as I said,
the only reason they gave us
that deal, by the way,
was because at the back of
their minds they were still worried
that we would come out
without a deal.
