i have every sympathy with people in northern ireland who, _ are frustrated with this deal. but the problem laura, _ as you will know, is if you develop a reputation for people that don't honour things they sign up to, i the other side gets like ultra - sticking to the rules about how it's to be done. so you lose the benefit of the doubt. there is a pattern of behaviour here going back to the internal markets i bill that we had last autumn. so the eu might well be mindedj to give ground on some of these things if it really trusts the people that it's- negotiating with. but the danger is the government's | pattern of behaviour has destroyed | that trust and that's going to make extracting concessions them - even more difficult. now, liz, let's talk about the subject that brings you out in a rash. why there is no reform to social care. because in a parallel universe actually tonight, we might have been discussing the government's new plan for fixing social care in england, it might be a cap on how much you pay in your lifetime, there might be a change to the means test, there might be an increase in national insurance. and it was planned for yesterday. really?

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