Brexit: DUP says draft EU treaty would be 'economically catastrophic' for Northern Ireland – Politics live

Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs and reaction as the EU publishes its draft text of the Brexit withdrawal treaty 1.46pm GMT According to the BBC’s Philip Sim, Michael Russell, the Scottish government’s Brexit minister, has called for Boris Johnson to be sacked.Mike Russell says what he read of Boris Johnson’s views on Brexit last night was “difficult to believe” – if Foreign Secretary “seeks to abrogate an international treaty in order to pursue his own very warped views of what the UK should do”, Theresa May “should be firing him” pic.twitter.com/eZZCCzyDqC 1.43pm GMT In the Commons Gregory Campbell, the DUP MP for East Londonderry, says he lives closer to the Irish border than any other MP. He says it would be impossible to introduce a hard border in Ireland anyway because, with the border being so long, residents would easily find a way of circumventing it. Continue reading…
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