Meanwhile, the US Congress puts more pressure on the UK to accept a backstop agreement by warning that a hard border could threaten a US-UK trade deal with the UK.
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US officials are said to hold "palpable concerns" about the impact of Brexit on Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement, as Tánaiste Simon Coveney met with congressmen and foreign ministers in Washington.
Members of Congress warned last night that any return to a hard border in Ireland could threaten a post-Brexit trade deal between the US and the UK.
Mr Coveney attended a meeting of the Coalition Against Isis in the US yesterday with ministers from more than 70 countries. Brexit was one of the issues discussed by ministers and officials in the margins at the meeting.
The Tánaiste is said to have used it to enforce a message that Brexit will have negative consequences for Ireland and the North.
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https://www.independent.ie/business/...-37791274.html
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Originally Posted by nomadking
Strange how all these issues of a lack of plan, backstop etc, didn't apply to the Scottish Independence vote.
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Maybe that's because Leave didn't win that vote?
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Originally Posted by Mr K
If that's what you want, we do seem to desperate to get one though. Do the Govt. know something we don't ? i.e that it would be chaos and the Govt. of the day will be the fall guys... Think this is how Corbyn is seeing it.
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I think you're right. I suspect May wouldn't hang around for too long under such circumstances though.