Irish border 'backstop' fix cannot be for whole of UK - EU's Barnier

An economic arrangement to avoid a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland cannot be extended to the whole of Britain, as London has proposed, the European Union's chief Brexit negotiator said on Friday.Britain proposed on Thursday a compromise solution for the Irish border issue that would see Britain staying tied to the EU's customs union for up to another year after an almost two-year Brexit transition period.EU negotiator Michel Barnier told a news conference that the proposal posed