UK must accept border on Irish Sea is inevitable, says ex-WTO chief

Pascal Lamy says row is solvable if PM stops using emotional Brexit politics to solve technical problem'

Boris Johnson's row with the EU over Northern Ireland's Brexit arrangements is absolutely solvable" but only if the UK accepts that a border is inevitable, the former head of the World Trade Organization has said.

But Pascal Lamy said the prime minister could only achieve a breakthrough if he stopped mixing oil and vinegar" and throwing emotional Brexit politics on to what he said was essentially a technical problem.