Britain wants to find a “practical solution” to ensure there will be no new border controls between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland when the UK leaves the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday.
Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom to share a land border with another EU member. Residents and businesses on both sides of the frontier fear a return to customs and immigration controls along the unmarked border.
Visiting Belfast, May said the UK and Ireland had shared a common travel area since “many years before either country was a member of the European Union.”
“Nobody wants to return to the borders of the past,” May said after talks with Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness that focused on the potential consequences of a British EU exit.
“What we do want to do is to find a way through this that is going to work and deliver a practical solution for everybody,” she said.

Source: Arab News