PM Boris Johnson is set to present detailed Brexit proposals in the next few days, but Ireland has already dismissed one border plan as a “non-starter.”
The prime minister will offer his blueprint for a Brexit deal to the EU following this week’s Conservative Party conference in Manchester.
Justice Secretary Robert Buckland also told Sky News what has been leaked is “not the be-all and end all” of ways to break the Brexit deadlock.
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PM Boris Johnson has vowed to renegotiate the UK’s current withdrawal agreement and demanded the abolition of the Irish border backstop arrangement.
The backstop is designed as an insurance mechanism to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland regardless of the future EU/UK trade relationship.
RTE reported on Monday night that Mr. Boris Johnson’s plan to replace the backstop could include “customs clearance sites” on both sides of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. (Sky News).
