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I was out of the office yesterday when the UK Border Agency launched its consultation on ending, sorry, It paves the way towards passports or ID cards having to be shown on boats or planes between Ireland and Great Britain. Last year assiduous blog readers would remember I discussed the potential implications of this for Northern Ireland on a few occasions. The consultation document talks about ad hoc immigration controls on the border, but rules out any fixed controls. It leaves the sensitive topic of what ID air and sea passenges from NI to GB might have to produce until another day. But this nettle will have to be grasped if the e-border proposal is not to be left with a 224 mile hole in it.

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