Irish Sea rail tunnel plan derided as Doctor Dolittle fantasy
by Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#5E6QK)
Senior Tory Simon Hoare suggests putting the hallucinogenics down' and making the protocol work
A proposed undersea tunnel between Scotland and Northern Ireland has hit some credibility problems with one senior Conservative MP describing it as a Doctor Dolittle fantasy designed to distract from post-Brexit border check problems.
The trains could be pulled by an inexhaustible herd of unicorns overseen by stern, officious dodos," tweeted Simon Hoare, the Tory MP who chairs Westminster's Norther Ireland affairs committee.
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