Britain and Ireland can at least agree on one thing: nobody wants to start talking about the border again
Fencing in place around the International Protection Office on Mount Street, Dublin, to stop tents being pitched. Photograph: Dara Mac DónaillIt suits Rishi Sunak to have a row with the Irish Government right now, particularly on the subject of immigration policy – a policy on which he has looked pretty weak and over which the Conservatives are in danger of losing significant support to the populist Reform UK party in a general election due in the next few months.
Meanwhile, some unionist parties in Northern Ireland are enjoying what they think is a rare moment of schadenfreude. They’re still stinging from what they believe was Leo Varadkar’s “besting” of the UK government during the post-Brexit border debate and relish the fact that the very open border championed by the Irish is now the route by which immigrants will arrive into Ireland from a Britain that, after the Rwanda legislation, looks less secure for them.
Indeed, if you listen to GB News you would be forgiven for thinking that its presenters and audience welcome the prospect of Britain’s refugee, immigrant problem being encouraged to avail themselves of an open border in a nearby country with no Rwanda policy. Leading figures within the right of UK politics – like Nigel Farage and former prime minister Liz Truss – blame the Irish for the protocol and will shed no tears if that country now has to “reap what it sowed”.
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