Sinn Féin blasts British border ideas

The British government has fantasy “non-solutions” to the Irish border and are indifferent to the fallout from Brexit for Ireland, Sinn Féin president Mary-Lou McDonald has claimed.

The North’s border will be the UK’s only land frontier with an EU state after next year’s withdrawal and is one of the most vexed issues facing negotiators in Brussels.

British prime minister Theresa May’s cabinet is considering whether to support a customs partnership with the EU after Brexit, whereby the UK would effectively collect tariffs on behalf of the bloc, or a technological solution to border control known as ‘maximum facilitation’.