A Fine Gael TD has dismissed a suggestion by a senior BBC presenter that a solution to the Brexit impasse might be for Ireland to quit the EU and join the UK.
Reacting on Radio 4's Today programme on Saturday, Helen McEntee told presenter John Humphrys, tha, in the event of no deal, Ireland was "not planning for the reintroduction of a border", and urged the UK to honour its commitment to ensure the border remained invisible, as it had since the Good Friday peace deal was signed nearly 21-years-ago.
Mr Humphrys said to the TD for Meath East:"There has to be an argument, doesn’t there, that says instead of Dublin telling this country that we have to stay in the single market etc within the customs union, why doesn’t Dublin, why doesn’t the Republic of Ireland, leave the EU and throw in their lot with this country?"
The Fine Gael Europe spokesperson replied: "To suggest that we should leave?
"Ninety-two per cent of Irish people last year said they wanted Ireland to remain part of the European Union and in fact since Brexit that figure has gotten only bigger".
Last year it was revealed that the The Today programme and Mastermind host was paid between £600,000 and £649,999 a year, he is one of a number of male presenters who agreed to a substantial pay cut after the BBC disclosure of employees earnings over £150,000 revealed a substantial gender pay gap.
