Today, 24 short words aim to end seven-year Brexit dispute over the North – but it seems no-one told the DUP
Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris speaking to the media outside Hillsborough Castle yesterday. Photo: PA
John Downing
With just 24 clipped words, EU leaders will today finally pronounce that the seven-year Brexit dispute on the North’s special trade status is definitively over.
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