Ireland’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister has said he believes a Brexit deal on the Irish border question is “doable”, and confirmed that his government had held talks on the subject with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist party. “We have had discussions with the DUP … the DUP also want to look at a practical solution,” he said. Ireland has insisted it wants a written guarantee from Britain that it will ensure that there will be no border between Northern Ireland and Ireland for trade or people. Earlier, Dublin repeated its demand for an assurance from the UK that there would not be any regulatory divergence between Northern Ireland and the Republic after Brexit. Show Hide Ireland’s taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, has been much more sceptical than the UK about the potential for avoiding border posts via virtual checks on importers.

Source: The Guardian December 01, 2017 09:36 UTC