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Ireland is now under EU obligation to designate a regulator for the food trade. Who should police relations between farmers, processors and retailers? How much power should they have? Thomas Hubert meets Christine Tacon, the Groceries Code Adjudicator in the UK – arguably the most advanced country in this area.

In their time the DUP has said that there would never be the Good Friday, IRA disarming or power-sharing with Sinn Fein. Now they are telling us that the new version of the Irish backstop will never be accepted. We shall see.

Sterling has proven overvalued against every major currency since the Empire began to contract. Brexit will merely add to this.