PM takes another step deeper into the Irish quagmire
Irish question is going to require further blurring of red lines. Will the DUP accept this? If there’s no deal, we’ll be even more stuck.
Is the DUP having cold feet over Brexit?
Some members of the party that props May up fear crashing out of EU could wreck Northern Irish economy and revive calls for unification.
Irish border is the Achilles heel of Brexit
May has yet to find any plan that would preserve an invisible and frictionless border in Ireland.
Could DUP be shafted by Irish Sea border in Brexit deal?
And will they shaft May in return? If DUP are worried Tories will back checks between Britain and Northern Ireland, they can pull the rug.
Ireland backs soft Brexiters in UK cabinet battle
Irish deputy prime minister says his country wants to be UK’s “closest friend” but warns of “hard choices” ahead.
Might Tory Brexiters ditch DUP if push comes to shove?
What if Brextremists decided only way to get hard border for Britain was to accept sea border and abandon their allies in Ulster?
EU helped May out because it fears successor would be worse
In agreeing “sufficient” progress had been made in talks, Brussels decided that PM must be rescued from both DUP and cabinet Brexiters.
Gove is ignorant or lying: we can’t rip up future EU deal
Brexit ayatollah is trying to calm Tory nerves over May’s capitulation by saying we can diverge from any EU rules we don’t like. Nonsense.
Wheels on government’s Brexit strategy shaking loose
Today’s deal comes hot on heels of clash with DUP, Davis’ vanishing impact assessments and damning Lords report. It doesn’t bode well.
Irish fiasco raises chance of stopping Brexit
We need to avoid both a land border in Ireland and sea one between Northern Ireland and Great Britain. Staying in EU is only sane solution.
Irish ideologies making May’s Brexit impossible
The PM’s delicate house of cards has been blasted by DUP. Time to face facts: a workable deal cannot be negotiated as Irish tensions boil.
How to solve Irish question? Stay in the EU
May has been guilty of obfuscation and magical thinking on Northern Ireland. Now’s time for clear thinking and straight talk.