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The Irish Prime Minister is breaking the Belfast Agreement requirement for unionist consent by insisting on a border between NI and GB in the Irish Sea, UUP leader Robin Swann has said.

Mr Swann said today that the EU should give Prime Minister Theresa May the flexibility she is requesting in Brexit talks - and that undermining the Belfast Agreement to facilitate the preferred Irish ‘backstop’ proposal is not a sensible way forward.

Dublin is pressing for EU customs checks to treat the island of Ireland has a single unit, whereas unionists would prefer a “frictionless” soft border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland which makes no distintion between the Province and the rest of the UK.

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Leo Varadkar '˜intransigent' in breaching Belfast Agreement for his preferred status for NI, says UUP