Reported in 2018. Who'd have imagined he'd sign up to exactly this "monstrosity", and having signed up to it, that it wouldn't go down well on the Shankhill Road?
Johnson claimed that in December last year, “the U.K. government agreed that if the EU was not satisfied – at any point in the future – about the arrangements for the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, then as a matter of law, Northern Ireland would have to be part of the EU customs union and large parts of its single market – accepting rules promulgated in Brussels in just the way that Ireland does.”
He added, “This version of the Irish backstop is little short of an attempt to annex Northern Ireland. It would imply customs and regulatory controls between Britain and Northern Ireland, and therefore a border down the Irish sea…it is a monstrosity...the whole thing is a constitutional abomination.”