UK Should Defy Demands for Irish Brexit Border, Lawmaker Says
- Pro-Brexit Tory Rees-Mogg says no need for border in Ireland
- Question of Northern Irish border has dogged Brexit talks
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U.K. Conservative lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg said Britain should refuse to set up border posts between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after Brexit, and urged the Irish government to do the same.
The question of what happens with Britain’s only land border after it leaves the European Union has been the subject of heated debate. The region was the focus of terrorism for decades, and there are concerns that putting border posts back up could reignite violence. Prime Minister Theresa May says she wants “no return to the borders of the past.”