Northern Ireland papers: no simple solution to hard border, say UK officials

Papers from the Northern Ireland executive lay bare huge obstacles to avoiding a land border.Senior British officials privately conceded last year that the UK’s preferred solution for avoiding a hard border with the Republic after Brexit would threaten the EU’s single market and that all possible outcomes would be damaging for the province.A series of leaked letters and briefing papers from the Northern Ireland executive – at least one of which was sent to Olly Robbins, the pri