Boris Johnson’s secret plans to solve the Irish border Brexit challenge involve customs sites on both sides of the border and real-time tracking devices on lorries, it has been reported. That is an absolute commitment.”A government source said the report was a misrepresentation of the “non-paper”, which discussed customs checks at place of origin or destination of goods. Sinn Féin in Ireland and the Social Democratic and Labour party in Northern Ireland also dismissed the plans on Monday night. That’s not true,” he said referring to the bloc of 28 backbenchers who voted against Theresa May’s Brexit deal three times. That would place a customs border in the Irish Sea.

Source: The Guardian September 30, 2019 17:26 UTC