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Johnson Brexit letter offers no alternatives to Irish backstop: EU

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The EU gives a chilly response to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's letter demanding the scrapping of the Irish border backstop plan to achieve a Brexit deal, saying he had offered no workable alternative. SOUNDBITE

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