Boris Johnson was not honest about the Irish border. What is he going to do about it? | Simon Jenkins

The prime minister’s bluster is meeting head-on with the complex reality of Northern Irish politics

Apologies make cynical history, but Boris Johnson has a big one to make, and fast. He must apologise to Northern Ireland’s unionists that he did not mean it last year when he pledged “no border” down the Irish Sea. As the Good Friday agreement negotiator, Jonathan Powell, wrote on Sunday, this was a lie. Johnson had just told the Irish government that the Good Friday deal held and there would be no...