Arlene Foster said she received a text of the deal late on Monday morning, having sought it for nearly five weeks PAUL FAITH/AFP/GETTY IMAGESLeo Varadkar has rejected Arlene Foster’s claims that the Brexit talks collapsed because the Irish government insisted that a proposed solution for the border was withheld from the DUP until after a deal was signed. British and European negotiators had agreed a text on Monday that called for “regulatory alignment” on the island of Ireland post-Brexit to avoid a hard border. Theresa May, the British prime minister, was forced to abandon plans to sign the agreement after a phone call with Mrs Foster, leader of the DUP. Mrs Foster said that she only received a text of the deal late on Monday morning, despite asking for it for nearly five weeks. Once her party saw it, she said, they knew it would not be acceptable.

Source: The Times December 06, 2017 00:00 UTC