We would be an exception to that otherwise true generality because of partition, the border, and our large population on the other side of it.We would be an exception to that otherwise true generality because of partition, the border, and our large population on the other side of it.

Brexit destabilised and disrupted Ireland for years since 2016. After some particularly tense episodes (personally, Gove in 2019 ‘concerned’ over essential medicine supply lines to the Republic), we got a hard won agreement at last with the UK and that should stand now for a few decades.