Irish border

Boris Johnson, Arlene Foster et al dismissed concerns about border out of hand in 2016. The wilful ignorance is breathtaking.

May needs her 13 Scottish MPs to get Brexit through. Their intervention is reminder that they have their own specific Brexit conundrum.

Hard Brexiters are over-excited that the EU is calling for a Canada+++ deal. It only works if they sell Northern Ireland down the river.

If May fudges a Brexit deal that could leave Northern Ireland semi-detached from rest of UK, it will pull plug on her government.

PM prepared to stay in customs union indefinitely and accept regulatory checks in Irish Sea, says Times. That would make mockery of Brexit.

With only six months to go before we are supposed to quit the EU, Johnson’s six-point plan for a “better Brexit” is full of holes.

PM has picked a fight with the EU over the Irish backstop. But it’s her own catalogue of errors that has got us into this mess.

PM wavered on “my deal or no deal” line at summit. A flip-flop on Irish border seems in the offing. Might a People’s Vote be next?

Rees-Mogg’s plan still means border checks and infrastructure, and turns blind eye to smuggling. EU would reject it outright.

Some people think PM’s Brexit plan will fall apart if it’s detailed; others if it’s vague. They are both right.

Johnson and Rees-Mogg hate Chequers. But they won’t spell out a workable alternative because they know voters would run a mile.

The trouble is that she still believes it is up to the rest of the EU to solve the Irish border problem created by Brexit.