The extreme wing of the Conservative party which is currently ascendant in Britain, argues that there will never be a hard border in Ireland, because no one would build one, Britain, Ireland nor the EU. (Peter Bone MP, BBC Newsnight 11 September 2020).
How then, if there is no trade agreement, and both parties imposed a duty on - for example - beef, would the UK authorities prevent Irish farmers simply marching cattle across the border to the north and putting them on a ferry to Holyhead?
Are people like Michael Gove, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, (following comments to BBC Today 12 September 2020) perfectly happy to allow that to happen, while the EU are charging a 40% duty on British beef into the community?