THE LUDICROUS customs partnership arrangement preferred by Remainers as a solution to the Ireland border post-Brexit has been torn apart by a London based think thank who have argued the plan is almost impossible to make work in reality.  A customs partnership is being considered by the Prime Minister along with a maximum facilitation solution. Boris Johnson and HMRC have both previously rubbished Mrs May’s preferred border option and now the UK in a Changing Europe has slapped down the Tory leader. Thomas Sampson, who is also Professor at the London School of Economics, described the plan as being like “a house of cards that comes falling down” while ripping apart the negotiating position. Talking about the idea with journalists, including Express.co.uk, he said: “The idea is that in order to avoid the kind of border frictions that leaving the EU would create, the UK would replicate the EU’s external border.”

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