British Prime Minister Theresa May has warned that avoiding a post-Brexit hard border in Ireland won’t happen "simply because people sit around and say 'well we won’t have a border'." British Prime Minister Theresa May has warned that avoiding a post-Brexit hard border in Ireland won’t happen "simply because people sit around and say 'well we won’t have a border'." Avoiding a hard border in Ireland requires more than simply saying it won't happen, May warnsShe made the remarks while defending the so-called backstop in her deal with the European Union ahead of a crunch vote in Westminster within the next ten days. “Actually no border doesn’t happen simply because people sit around and say ‘well we won’t have a border’. “It’s about making sure that we can guarantee that there will be no hard border… that’s important to us.

Source: Irish Independent January 06, 2019 11:37 UTC