Boris Johnson might find his Irish cake hard to digest
British foreign secretary is either clueless about Border or doesn’t give a damn
The ignorance of Boris Johnson and his fellow arch-Brexiteers has set a trap for them. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images
The UK’s flailing effort to leave the EU can be measured not in policy gains or political successes, but in soundbites. It is best captured in the one beloved of Boris Johnson, Britain’s foreign secretary, that, when it comes to Brexit, “we can have our cake and eat it”.
Johnson, who is due to visit Dublin on Friday, will no doubt be offered tea and – who knows? – cake when he meets Simon Coveney, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, at Iveagh House. As even the British foreign secretary must know by now, though, having your cake and eating it is not a sustainable foreign policy.