Reg Empey: 'Unionists will never agree to a border up the middle of the Irish Sea'

He was responding to Peter Hain's expected suggestion that Northern Ireland should be part of the same customs union and single market as the Republic of Ireland after Brexit.

Reg Empey: 'Unionists will never agree to a border up the middle of the Irish Sea'

Former Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain is proposing partition of the UK, a senior unionist claimed.

Mr Hain is expected to argue that Northern Ireland should be part of the same customs union and single market as the Republic of Ireland after Brexit.

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