What is in Jeremy Corbyn’s leaked Northern Ireland document?

Labour leader claims Treasury slideshow proves border between NI and rest of UK

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Jeremy Corbyn presents the “official, sensitive” Northern Ireland document to journalists
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Jeremy Corbyn has produced a leaked government document that he claims proves Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal will create a border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.

The Labour leader said that the document, marked “official, sensitive”, provided the “cold hard evidence” that Johnson had been “misleading” people about his Brexit deal, says the Belfast Telegraph.

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