Britain’s ‘buffer zone’ border proposal ‘bonkers’

Leaked British plans to create a 10-mile “buffer zone” around the border have been described as “bonkers”, “fantastical”, and “like something out of Alice in Wonderland” by both British and Irish Brexit experts.

The British-Irish Chamber of Commerce, Labour, Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin, and the Liberal Democrats criticised the British government’s plan despite saying that, for the first time, it also shows that London accepts that the North must be treated differently to the rest of the UK.

In one of 10 policy options set to be outlined to the EU at a crunch summit on June 28 and 29, British Brexit secretary David Davis has proposed creating a new 10-mile “buffer zone” around the border.