Breaking: Tories/DUP/RoI “agree border ‘fudge'” likely to spark Brexiteer outrage

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foster mayTheresa May’s shambolic Brexit weakness looks set to continue if reports from SKWAWKBOX sources in Ireland are correct.

Mrs May was humiliated on Monday after her team trailed a breakthrough agreement with the Republic of Ireland (RoI) on the thorny question of the border between Northern Ireland (NI) and the RoI – only for the DUP’s Arlene Foster to pull the rug from under her feet when she vowed to veto any deal that would put NI on a different footing from the rest of the UK.

Since then, the Tories have been scrambling for some kind of compromise wording that would somehow keep all sides happy. It looks as if all the compromise may have been on Theresa May’s part – and that the unhappiness will be on the Tory hard right.

When the deal collapsed on Monday, the SKWAWKBOX flagged that two options were available to the government…

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