Leo Varadkar said during a speech on Europe in Leuven, Belgium, that the UK’s promises to Ireland must be made legally binding YVES HERMAN/REUTERSLeo Varadkar has urged the UK to drop its red lines on Brexit and find a solution to avoid a hard border by June. In Leuven, Belgium, last night, in a speech on the future of Europe, the taoiseach warned that the British government’s promise to avoid a hard border must be made legally binding. “The UK has guaranteed that, whatever its future relationship with the European Union, there will be no hard border on the island of Ireland. This was agreed in a joint report between the EU and the UK last December. “It is a political agreement and it is now imperative that these commitments are firmly enshrined in the legal text of the withdrawal agreement, and embedded in the UK’s future relationship…

Source: The Times April 26, 2018 23:04 UTC