MEP: Brexit will hit links with Ireland

BREXIT will have a bigger impact on our relationship with Ireland than the 1916 Easter Rising and partition, an MEP claims.

European Parliament vice president Mairead McGuinness hit out at ideas on customs, trade and the Irish border outlined by the Tories.

She said the thinking was “more than the UK wanting to have its cake and eat it, it’s an attempt to have its cake and eat ours”.

Ms McGuinness, of Fine Gael, added: “There are those who would use Brexit as a weapon to reunite our country. That is misguided. The path to reunification is in the Good Friday Agreement.”