Northern Ireland

Rejecting a backstop agreement means no Brexit deal, and falling back on WTO rules. They would enforce creation of a hard border in Ireland.

Remaining 5% includes Irish border for which May still has no good answer. And this is still all just the first phase of the Brexit process.

Amendments designed to frustrate May’s deal with the EU have been pulled. But mere attempt shows contempt for people of Northern Ireland.

Arlene Foster’s “blood red line” of an Irish Sea border may be a bitter pill for the DUP to swallow, but it is not something entirely new.

Car plants powering down, heart drug trials halted, plans for power cuts and road chaos. Just a few recent Brexit realities.

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.

Such a mega u-turn could tear the UK apart and damage the economy. But PM’s position is so desperate that the scenario can’t be ruled out.

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.

The 11-month hard slog in Parliament added important details to Act. And there are plenty of Brexit elephant traps ahead.

May has yet to find any plan that would preserve an invisible and frictionless border in Ireland.

Keep June free - May’s bringing her Withdrawal Bill to the Commons. That means confronting complex home truths on her botched Brexit plan.