Reality Check: Red lines on the Irish border
[ad_1] The Irish prime minister is in Brussels on Thursday to meet EU leaders - a reminder that Ireland is centre stage in the Brexit negotiations. When you boil Brexit down, a lot of it is about borders. And as the sound and fury of the Brexit debate at party conferences begins to fade, one fact remains - progress needs to be made on the complex issue of the Irish border in the next two weeks. So with deadlines fast approaching, and fundamental issues at stake, it's not surprising that the rhetoric is being ramped up. Are we back to red lines? We are. "There's only ever been one red line," the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, Arlene Foster, told BBC news, "and it is this, there cannot ever be a border down the Irish Sea, a differential between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK." "The red line," she added, for the avoidance of any doubt, "is blood red - it's very red...