Brexit secretary: no return to ‘hard’ border in Ireland
Writing in the Belfast Telegraph, Davis made his vow about not returning to the past in terms of armed checkpoints and border checks. He wrote: “We had a common travel area between the UK and the Republic of Ireland many years before either country was a member of the European Union. “We are clear we do not want a hard border – no return to the past – and no unnecessary barriers to trade.
Hmm. A border is made up of two sides. Through the UK’s actions, the EU may insist on border controls – as they do with every other land border they have. But in Davis’s world that will be the EU’s fault.
