Simon Coveney said that the UK government must fulfil its commitment to avoiding a hard border CLODAGH KILCOYNE/REUTERSThe British government must abide by its commitment to avoid a hard border, Simon Coveney has warned amid speculation about a breakthrough in Brexit talks. Details of a potential all-UK customs deal being written into the legally binding withdrawal agreement were reported by The Sunday Times. The newspaper said this would be designed to avoid a backstop that would treat Northern Ireland differently from the rest of the UK. A “senior Whitehall source” said that “Ireland is f***ed” in the new deal, which Theresa May was confident could attract support from the British parliament, the newspaper reported. A spokesman for the tánaiste said that the article had been written with a British audience in…

Source: The Times November 05, 2018 00:03 UTC