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UK: Boris Johnson will tell the EU he is prepared to accept post-Brexit border

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- Boris Johnson will tell the EU he is prepared to accept post-Brexit border

checks rather than allowing Britain to be a rule-taker in a major speech setting

out his aims for a trade deal next week. The Prime Minister will say sovereignty

is more important than frictionless trade, defying warnings from Brussels that

the UK must accept EU standards on goods if it wants the best possible deal.

Whitehall sources have told The Daily Telegraph that while Mr Johnson wants to

avoid tariffs and quotas on cross-Channel trade, he will never cave in to

demands for alignment on regulations, despite knowing "the consequences that

flow from that".