There is now of course a massive issue of trust with NI, and the EU, and the USA- before it is clear that Johnson signed the Deal with every intention of reneging on it.
So no wonder the so-called fabulous Deal with Australia, agreed in principle months ago, is faltering. I do not blame the Australian for being extremely weary of every word, comma and fullstop.
''He may have traveled more than 10,000 miles from Canberra to London, but Dan Tehan left Britain without a trade deal.
The Australian trade minister had hoped to clinch an agreement with his U.K. counterpart Anne-Marie Trevelyan at the end of his long, multi-stop trip across the globe, but the two sides ended up kicking the can.
“I know we're all impatient to get that signature on the final inked deal,” Tehan told the U.K.-Australia Chamber of Commerce at a breakfast event on Friday, the morning after his meeting with Trevelyan. “I can tell you no one is more impatient than me to get that done. But we do have to make sure that we get it right.”
The two sides reached an “agreement in principle” in June, but have spent months wrangling over the legal text. Converting a 16-page draft agreement into a fully scrubbed tome both sides can sign up to has turned out to be more of a challenge than was hoped.''