The Irish question may yet save Britain from Brexit | Polly Toynbee

Leo Varadkar is right to stand his ground over the Northern Irish border, and could yet force Theresa May’s handIt was always there for all to see, the great Celtic stone cross barring the way to Brexit. Finally, as crunch day nears, the government and its Brextremists have to confront what was always a roadblock to their fantasies. They pretended it was nothing. Reviving that deep-dyed, centuries-old contempt for the Irish, they have dismissed it with an imperial fly-whisk