The new Brexit deal is the best Britain can expect. Support it
Both the Tories and the Democratic Unionist Party should get behind the new agreement with the EU
BREXIT WAS bound to be difficult for Northern Ireland, since it has the uk’s only land border with the EU. All sides agreed that a hard north-south border with customs controls risked upsetting the peace process that culminated in the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Yet if Britain left the EU’s single market and customs union, a border had to go somewhere.
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This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “Take the deal”
Leaders March 4th 2023
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