LONDON - Britain's culture minister Jeremy
Wright said the government would not accept a Brexit deal which
separates Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK via a hard
border down the Irish Sea.
Wright was speaking after the DUP, the Northern Irish party
which props up Prime Minister Theresa May's government, said
that her negotiations had raised alarm bells, and it would not
support a Brexit deal that divided the United Kingdom.
"There is no doubt that we have understood the concern that
the DUP and others have expressed about a hard border down the
Irish Sea, we share it, and we will not accept a deal that
involves that component," Wright told BBC radio on Friday.
Speaking on the same programme, the DUP's Brexit spokesman
Sammy Wilson said that the party's understanding of May's
negotiating position represented a betrayal.
"That to us is a breach of the promise which has been made
that we would not be cut off from the rest of the United
Kingdom," he said.