Brexit border deal ‘not legally possible’

Ireland is heading for Brexit “disaster” as Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s desired special deal between the Republic and the North is not legally possible, it has been claimed.

Customs legal experts Michael Lux and Eric Pickett, writing in today’s Irish Examiner, deliver a gloomy new analysis of British prime minister Theresa May’s Brexit white paper.

Their conclusions are far more grave than what was feared initially and undermine Mr Kenny’s hope that there will be no return to the borders of the past.