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- Scotland’s Brexit minister Michael Russell believes the Irish border issue could see the UK remain in the EU single market.
- If May keeps Northern Ireland in the single market, “there are compelling reasons why that should be the case for Scotland and indeed for the rest of the UK,” he told Business Insider.
- He also said Downing Street’s “unusual” tactics in the first year of negotiations would “eventually come to grief” because the government had refused to make serious commitments in key areas.
- “So far it’s been evasion and fudge. I would describe it as putting it off the evil hour. Eventually, the hour will come,” he said.
LONDON — Theresa May’s inability to solve the Irish border dilemma could see the whole of the UK remain permanently in the single market and customs union, according to Scotland’s Brexit minister.
“It is very difficult to see a solution for example in Northern Ireland without continuing membership of the single market and the customs union,” Michael Russell MSP told Business Insider.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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