Leo Varadkar told reporters on Monday evening that it was out of the question. “I visited the Canada/US border back in August and saw physical infrastructure with customs posts, people in uniforms with arms and dogs and that is definitely not a solution that we could possibly entertain,” he said.
He told a press conference in Dublin with the Luxembourg prime minister Xavier Bettel that he had not heard May’s speech and did not want to comment on it directly but he was clear this arrangement would not work in Ireland.
May made the US-Canada border suggestion during a Commons statement, citing it as an example of how frontiers between countries with different customs regimes could work.
Challenged on her claim by the shadow Brexit minister, Jenny Chapman, who pointed to the presence of armed customs guards on the US-Canada border, May said it was just one of several examples being examined.
The exchange came after May updated MPs about her Brexit speech in London on Friday, which set out several details of the government’s aims but gave no new details on how to prevent border checks between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland if the UK leaves the EU’s customs union.
After the statement, the Labour MP Emma Reynolds asked May if she could name an international border between countries not in a customs union and with different external tariffs “where there are no checks on lorries carrying goods at the border”.
Source: theguardian
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