THE CONSERVATIVE party confusion over Brexit continued at the weekend with senior party spokesmen expressing apparently opposite views, particularly on the issue of free movement.
International trade secretary Dr Liam Fox yesterday said that unregulated free movement of labour after Brexit would "not keep faith" with the EU referendum result. However Chancellor Philip Hammond has said again that there would probably be a three-year transitional period to put in place all the arrangements after Britain leaves the union.
This confusion and contradictory statements by such senior members of Theresa May's cabinet hardly inspires confidence. How the land border is managed here in Ireland will have huge consequences for everybody on this island. If the British government is still split on how to approach the issue it cannot encourage anyone here that a coherent plan is being pursued, a plan which will work for businesses and for ordinary people who cross what is currently an invisible border regularly.
