Over the weekend, Theresa May tried to square the Irish border circle, by agreeing that Northern Ireland would remain in the EU’s customs union and single market while the rest of Great Britain pursued her loony’s hard brexit project. This means that the border between the EU and Great Britain would be the Irish Sea. It was hardly surprising that the DUP torpedoed this idea, in a humiliating fashion for the Government.
It’s unsurprising that both the Scottish First Minister and the Mayor of London spoke out for me too deal; if Northern Ireland gets to stay in the single market, then why not other areas that voted remain.
Of course one answer is that the whole of the UK stays within the customs union and single market
I spotted this on twitter a while back (Can’t find the original source), which I thought very neatly captured the NI border issue graphically;
https://twitter.com/jeannebartram/status/931940574529249280
Cheers,
Will