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UK staying in EU customs union only way of ensuring frictionless Irish border: Blair

London, Nov 29 (Sputnik) The only possible solution to the post-Brexit difficulties with the Irish border is to retain UK-wide membership in the EU Customs Union as well as the bloc's Single Market, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said, arguing that a full exit from the single market would be "incompatible" with the set goals.
Former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair recalled that the UK government had made three main commitments during the Brexit negotiations, no hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, maintaining the same relationship with the European Union and leaving the EU Customs Union and Single Market.
"Anybody who studies the technical detail knows that these three things are mutually incompatible ... The only way to have a frictionless border in Ireland is to be part of the Customs Union and part of the Single Market, at least for goods and agricultural products," he said at the Financial Time's "Brexit and Beyond" conference in London, asked a relevant question by a Sputnik correspondent.

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