Brexit: EU's chief negotiator vows 'always a way' to avoid hard Irish border

The EU’s chief negotiator for Brexit has for the first time promised there will be a way of avoiding a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, saying that if there is a political will, there will be a way.Michel Barnier’s remarks came as Tony Blair told a meeting of Europe’s centre-right political groups in the Irish Republic that a hard border would be a disaster.