Theresa May is facing a new setback in Brexit negotiations after the government in Dublin said that her proposal for the Irish border was unworkable.
Leo Varadkar, the Republic of Ireland’s prime minister, is pushing for the Irish Sea to become the post-Brexit border with the UK after warning Mrs May that her plan was doomed and would jeopardise the peace process.
British officials were said to be taken aback by Dublin’s change in tone, expressed at a European Union summit in Brussels last week. The DUP said this morning that it would be strongly opposed to the “absurd and unconstitutional” proposals.
The British government had proposed using technology such as surveillance cameras to allow continued free trade between the north and south of the
