英国政府坚持，它能够解决边界问题，方法是保持与欧盟关税规则紧密一致，并部署目前尚未开发出来的关税监控技术 — — 也就是说，英国将依靠魔法来解决边界问题。
For its part, the UK government insisted that it can address the border issue by remaining in close alignment with EU customs rules and deploying customs-monitoring technologies that have yet to be invented – which is to say, by magic.