A mooted eleventh-hour solution to the deadlock over
Brexit cannot work because Northern
Ireland must remain in a full
United Kingdom customs union, the deputy leader of the province's key political party said on Saturday.
With the Oct 31 deadline for a new Brexit divorce deal looming, an EU diplomat and an official said
British Prime Minister
Boris Johnson has proposed keeping
Northern Ireland in some form of EU customs partnership as well as a
UK customs union.
Italian newspaper Repubblica quoted its deputy leader Nigel Dodds as saying the proposal Johnson is said to have made "cannot work, because Northern Ireland has to remain fully part of the UK customs union".