Britain will never impose physical checks on its border with Ireland, Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised his Irish counterpart on Tuesday, while repeating that current plans for the frontier after Brexit were unacceptable.
The land border between British Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland will become part of the bloc’s external frontier once Britain leaves the European Union, and how it is managed is hugely controversial.
In his first phone call with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar since taking office last week, Johnson said he emphasised that “the UK under no circumstances will have checks at the border in Northern Ireland”.
But speaking to the media afterward, he warned that unless Brussels dropped its commitment to the current “backstop” plan to keep open the frontier, Britain would leave the EU without a deal on October 31.
Source: Guardian Newspaper.
