THE 1998 BELFAST AGREEMENT didn’t abolish the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It affirmed, and in the south formally legiti-mised, its existence. Nor does the Agreement, which has been broken multiple times since its inception — not least by the continued existence of the IRA — and formally overwritten repeatedly, in any way say that there should not be an enhanced trade border between the United Kingdom and Republic in the event of the former leaving the EU.
Why would it?