Long after a big election win in December 2019, the blustering slogan ‘Let’s get Brexit done’ is still UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s guiding principle on the issue. But unless London wakes up to the need to honour its legal and political commitments to the EU, grave damage will be done all around.
Here are five simple reasons outlining the perils of Johnson’s continuing “buy now pay later” Brexit approach which has simply run out of credit.
And, sadly, in the words of Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Ireland risks becoming major collateral damage in a bitter post-Brexit EU-UK conflict about the Irish border. An emerging threat to Ireland – north and south is the changed mood in key member states as Johnson’s Brexit tactics are exhausting scarce patience.