New Boris Johnson comments on post-Brexit Irish border cause stir

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Wednesday, 28 February 2018 ()

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has reportedly cast doubt on maintaining no border on the island of Ireland after Brexit, in a letter written to Prime Minister Theresa May leaked yesterday (27 February).
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Boris Johnson has claimed that the issue of a hard border for Northern Ireland is being "used politically" to frustrate Brexit, as he promised to publish a leaked letter which set out his own proposals on solving the issue. Report by Dessentjacksonl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn...

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