British prime minister Boris Johnson has blamed the European Union for any customs checks that might be introduced on either side of the Border after Brexit. He said Britain was not proposing that there should be customs checks five miles from the Border but he said that some checks will be necessary. And in those circumstances then the EU itself insists on some checks,” he told ITV News. “Just to set this in context for you, it’s important to understand that trade North-South of the Border is dwarfed by trade East-West, from Northern Ireland to GB. So it would be wrong to, as it were, to keep Northern Ireland in a customs union with the EU and to create new checks down the Irish Sea for customs,” he told the BBC.

Source: The Irish Times October 01, 2019 18:15 UTC