Latest: 'The future of the UK' is in Dublin, says Donald Tusk

Latest: EU council president Donald Tusk has strongly backed Ireland's demands for a concrete guarantee from Britain that there be no hard border in the event of Brexit, writes Juno McEnroe.

Update: 5.24pm:EU council president Donald Tusk has strongly backed Ireland's demands for a concrete guarantee from Britain that there be no hard border in the event of Brexit, writes Juno McEnroe.

Mr Tusk met Taoiseach Leo Varadkar this evening and afterwards declared that "the future of the UK" was in Dublin.