Skip to main content
Donate to the 95 years appeal
Irish border spat ‘just a ruse for a Tory minimalist Brexit’

MOVES to keep Northern Ireland inside the EU single market are just a ruse for a “minimalist Brexit,” Irish communists have warned.

The Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) accused Brussels, Westminster and Dublin of “ruling by fooling” in a Wednesday night statement.

It said “regulatory alignment” between Northern Ireland and the republic, agreed this week between British PM Theresa May and EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, was intended “to keep Britain and the EU as close as possible.”

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
More from this author
A Turkish missile is fired at Kurdish forces in Afrin
World / 9 February 2018
9 February 2018
United States / 9 February 2018
9 February 2018
South America / 9 February 2018
9 February 2018
South Africa / 8 February 2018
8 February 2018
Similar stories
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves at the Confederati
Britain / 22 January 2025
22 January 2025
Features / 3 January 2025
3 January 2025
New year’s statement from the Communist Party of Ireland
Activists with the Banu campaign protest the lack of action
Features / 18 October 2024
18 October 2024
A government disinterested in making serious economic and social interventions for native speakers of the Irish language, coupled with a neoliberal housing policy, is killing off Ireland’s last Gaelic strongholds, writes MORGAN DE MOINBHIOL
France's President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he delivers a
Features / 10 October 2024
10 October 2024
The French president and the European Central Bank have identified ‘more of the same’ neoliberal agenda as the answer to the EU’s woes – but can post-Brexit Britain grasp the opportunity to reject continued austerity, asks NICK WRIGHT