Brexit would not mean UK-Ireland border checks, says Theresa Villiers

Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers has rejected suggestions that UK withdrawal from the EU would require border checks to be reinstated with the Republic of Ireland.

Ms Villiers, who is campaigning for Brexit, said there was "every reason to suggest" that the UK and Ireland could maintain free movement under the kind of common travel area arrangement which existed before the two countries joined the EU in 1973.