Boris Johnson says leaked document ‘wrong’ about Irish Sea customs checks

Reported today on City AM For the full article visit: https://www.cityam.com/boris-johnson-... Boris Johnson has rejected claims that his Brexit deal would cause new customs checks on goods travelling between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but conceded they would apply to products bound for the Republic of Ireland.Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn revealed a leaked Treasury document on Friday that suggested there would be new checks that could be "highly disruptive" to Northern Ireland's economy.However, the Prime Minister told Sky News this morning that the document was "wrong". He said: "There's no question of there being checks on goods going NI-GB or GB-NI" because "we're part of the same customs territory".Yet Johnson admitted: "The only checks that there would be, would be if something was coming from GB via Northern Ireland and was going on to the Republic."More to follow.