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Hogan uses threat of hard border to warn Britain against leaving single market

IRELAND’S EU commissioner Phil Hogan piled on the pressure on Britain yesterday to stay in the EU single market, using the threat of a “hard border” with the North of Ireland if it left.

Mr Hogan’s comments came after Tory coalition partner the DUP said it would not tolerate a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic — as threatened by Brussels if Britain leaves the single market.

He said it was a “very simple fact” that “if the UK or Northern Ireland remained in the EU customs union, or better still the single market, there would be no border issue.”

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