For Brexit Tories, the hard border is too hard a question

The customs union issue – and the fall in foreign investment to the UK – is consuming ever larger amounts of the party’s energyRemain voters must wish someone had considered the Irish border question before they voted on 23 June 2016.It probably would not have changed the outcome. The referendum, as the pollsters remind us, was a cultural phenomenon linked more closely to people’s attitudes to immigration and sovereignty than to economic success – a situation that p