I suspect the Prime Minister knows that the advice from the Law Officers is that to create a hard border, which follows axiomatically from the policy wanted by my colleagues in the ERG, would be a breach of our international legal obligations under the Good Friday agreement. As we are a rule of law state, we do not do that sort of thing, which is why it is a complete fantasy to try to pursue it.
UK’s Withdrawal from the EU
Proceeding contribution from
Dominic Grieve
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 14 February 2019.
It occurred during Debate on UK’s Withdrawal from the EU.
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