Joe Biden speaks out on Brexit – saying “we’ve just got to keep the border open”

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https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/joe-biden-speaks-out-on-brexit-saying-weve-just-got-to-keep-the-border-open-in-ireland/25/11/

US President-elect Joe Biden has stressed the importance of keeping the Irish border open following Brexit.

Speaking to reporters in Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday, he said: "We do not want a guarded border. We want to make sure – we've worked too long to get Ireland worked out, and I talked with the British prime minister, I talked with the Taoiseach, I talked with others, I talked to the French.

"The idea of having a border north and south once again being closed is just not right, we've just got to keep the border open."

Mr Biden discussed Brexit with Prime Minister Boris Johnson earlier in November during one of his first phone calls to other world leaders as president-elect, warning him Brexit must not jeopardise the Northern Ireland peace process.

Mr Biden previously touched upon the 1998 Good Friday agreement during his presidential campaign, tweeting in September: "We can't allow the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland to become a casualty of Brexit.

"Any trade deal between the US and UK must be contingent upon respect for the Agreement and preventing the return of a hard border. Period."

He doesn't have any right to get involved but has done so anyway in usual yank style.

I can just see Boris spraining an ankle to bend over fast enough to accommodate Uncle Joe here.