The new Brexit deal is the best Britain can expect. Support it

BREXIT WASukEUEU bound to be difficult for Northern Ireland, since it has the ’s only land border with the . All sides agreed that a hard north-south border with customs controls the peace process that culminated in the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Yet if Britain left the ’s single market and customs union, a border had to go somewhere.Boris Johnson opted to take Great Britain out of the single market and customs union but to leave Northern Ireland, in effect, in both. That necessitated an east-west border in the Irish Sea, even if Mr Johnson pretended otherwise. When controls were duly imposed, he was characteristically quick to disavow his deal. He later brought in a parliamentary bill to let the government tear up parts of the protocol that created the border.