Thou shalt not question the Good Friday Agreement

Secretly recorded at a supposedly off-the-record discussion, organised by left-wing think-tank the Rosa Luxemburg Stifung, Gardiner said there was no reason to fear a post-Brexit 'hard' border. The Labour frontbencher drew a distinction between the old militarised border, with its 'watchtowers, security paraphernalia and soldiersa with guns', and the kind of checks and controls that operate on 'normal borders' between independent states.