Brexit: Irish minister warns no trade talks under border issue settled

Welcome to Dublin where the vexed issue of the future of the Irish border is threatening to scupper the even more vexed issue of Brexit… today Ireland’s foreign minister warned all 27 EU nations agreed that Brexit talks wouldn’t move onto discuss future trading relations until Britain gave further assurances that there wouldn’t be a hard border with the North. And the clock is ticking: Theresa May has just a week to make the progress Europe is demanding to move the talks on…