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European council president says that by not proposing alternatives those advocating removal support hard border

Donald Tusk has rejected Boris Johnson’s bid to strip the backstop out of the Brexit deal, with a thinly-veiled message that the British government was refusing to admit the lack of realistic alternatives.

Tusk, the president of the European council, issued the EU’s first official response, after Johnson published his letter on Monday night, calling for the “undemocratic” backstop to be scrapped.

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