Member

I have heard it said over and again—not necessarily in this House, but in the other House and by lots of people outside who have never actually read the Belfast agreement—that the Belfast/Good Friday agreement prohibits a border on the island of Ireland. It does not; it never mentions it. It does not say that there cannot be a customs border on the island of Ireland— no one can point to that. Where is it? It is not in the document. We already have a currency border, a VAT border and a tax border. Nowhere in the Belfast agreement does it say that you cannot have a customs border at the international boundary of the United Kingdom.