Anti-Brexit campaigners in Dublin this week. John Bruton said that the people of Britain were misled by Boris Johnson CLODAGH KILCOYNE/REUTERSJohn Bruton has urged Ireland to do everything it can to make sure there is no Brexit. Theresa May’s plan for leaving the EU would do incalculable damage to Ireland “politically, emotionally and economically”, according to the former taoiseach and EU ambassador to the US. “We cannot simply wait for this to happen,” he said yesterday.“While seeking to mitigate the effects of Mrs May’s chosen hard Brexit, we must also do everything we can to ensure that, at the end of the day, there is no Brexit.”Mr Bruton accused Boris Johnson, the British foreign secretary, of having “criminally misled” the UK over the consequences of leaving the EU, before tempering his remarks. “Boris Johnson attempted to simplify the Brexit issue by saying we can…

Source: The Times April 27, 2017 22:52 UTC