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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Lisa O'Carroll Brexit correspondent

UK must accept border on Irish Sea is inevitable, says ex-WTO chief

Belfast harbour.
Belfast harbour. Pascal Lamy said he did not understand the UK strategy, which risked a trade war with the EU that it would lose. Photograph: Liam Mcburney/EPA

Boris Johnson’s row with the EU over Northern Ireland’s Brexit arrangements is “absolutely solvable” but only if the UK accepts that a border is inevitable, the former head of the World Trade Organization has said.

But Pascal Lamy said the prime minister could only achieve a breakthrough if he stopped mixing “oil and vinegar” and throwing emotional Brexit politics on to what he said was essentially a technical problem.

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