Brexit: UK position paper opposes Irish border posts

  

   The UK government has said it does not want any border posts between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in its new position paper on Brexit.

   The paper is part of its negotiations with the European Union and the broad ideas in the document appear familiar.
   It suggests a "new customs partnership" or a "highly streamlined customs arrangement". Brexit critics have complained that the UK's proposals lack credible detail on how that aim could be achieved.
   Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK which will share a land border with an EU member state when the UK leaves the EU in March 2019.
   The future management of that border is a highly sensitive issue and is one of three main priorities in UK-EU Brexit negotiations.