The Brexiteers never took the Irish border seriously – and it shows
Dominic Cummings’ contemptuous reference to officials “babbling about Ireland” shows how casually Leavers dismissed the implications of Brexit.
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Why Keir Starmer is suddenly focusing on Northern Ireland
The Labour leader's two-day visit marks an end to the party's relative silence on Brexit.
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The DUP’s woes are a symptom of a bigger crisis for Northern Ireland and the Tories
The current arrangement of ever greater divergence between Northern Ireland and Great Britain surely cannot last.
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The Irish border question is unanswerable. The only viable option is to stop asking it
An issue as complex and sensitive as the Northern Ireland protocol won't get fixed during a weekend in Cornwall.
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The UK’s Brexit stance is doing serious damage to its relationship with the US
A new Atlantic Charter can’t make up for the lack of seriousness with which the British government has approached foreign affairs.
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Will Joe Biden’s intervention force the UK to end its stand-off with the EU?
The UK government is increasingly isolated on the global stage over its attitude towards the Northern Ireland protocol.
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A hundred years of trouble: How an outburst of violence exposed Northern Ireland as a failed state
On the 100th anniversary of the state they helped create, Ulster unionists are in thrall to a sense of doom.…
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Downing Street has won over Tory MPs, but Lord Keen’s resignation tells the real story
Backbenchers in the Commons have been reassured by Downing Street's latest move, but the legal reality remains unchanged.
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