In this, quite remarkable clip:
Johnson says he signed the NI protocol because he ‘hoped & believed our [European] friends would not necessarily want to apply it.’
So that was yet another lie that the Brexit deal was ‘oven-ready’.
He now admits that he simply signed an internationl treaty in the full expectation that it would not apply to him.
Yet, as John Grace in the Guardian puts it:
[Brexit is] one of the biggest acts of self-harm and even the Bank of England and the Treasury select committee can barely bring themselves to mention it. Truly, we are screwed.