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Hilary Benn, chairman of the Brexit select committee, and other MPs on the committee have been inspecting the Irish border for the first time in a visit to Middletown between Armagh and Monagahan.

The frontier is barely detectable apart from a change in mobile phone service and the two derelict customs posts on either side of the bridge.

“The fact these customs houses are derelict is a good thing, “ said Benn. He went on:

We do not want to see them coming back. The customs post, the fact it is decaying, that represents progress. The new housing estate we passed on the way in is on the old police station. That’s two symbols of progress. If there were customs checks, that would represent going backwards.