UK Prime Minister Theresa May has appealed to European Union leaders to drop plans for a Brexit that could rip Britain apart by insisting to keep Northern Ireland under EU economic rules after Britain leaves the bloc in March next year.
May told fellow European leaders on Wednesday in a summit in Austria’s Salzburg that it would be unacceptable for Britain to accept EU’s Brexit plan for Ireland, while urging the bloc to respond in kind to her “serious and workable” plan.
The premier told EU leaders that they would do the same if they were asked to agree to a “legal separation” of their countries.
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