Varadkar: What we are open to is alternative arrangements

Leo Varadkar: “What we are open to, and always have been open to, is alternative arrangements that perhaps could avoid a hard border, through procedures and technologies and so on.

What we expect, and I don’t think it’s unreasonable – we want to see that fleshed out, we want to see it exist, it demonstrated before we are willing to give up the backstop”

Speaking on Irish National Broadcaster RTÉ’s Marian Finucane programme, the taoiseach said it was “alarming” some leading Conservatives were suggesting a no-deal Brexit.

“It’s a legal guarantee and legally operable guarantee that we will never see a hard border again,” Mr Varadkar said of the backstop.

He also responded to calls for a time limit to be attached to the backstop.

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Source: BBC