I would also like to be associated with the messages of condolences to the late councillor, Manus Kelly, who was tragically killed in the rally in Donegal.

I was driving to Dublin today and was shocked at the level of discourse among British politicians and broadcasters. I heard Edwina Currie, who was a minister in the British Government many years ago and who is now a broadcaster and novelist, more or less say that Theresa May was probably too dull and we now needed a dodgy used car salesman such as Boris Johnson.

She went to work on an egg.

I am at a loss, having found out that this is the level of discourse in the British Parliament and among senior British politicians. They believe that they need somebody dodgy. This is not a Third World country.

They will get one in Boris Johnson.

This is the United Kingdom that was supposed to be the home of democracy. I hear Boris Johnson, who will probably be the next Prime Minister, state that there are abundant technical solutions. I happened to be in Northern Ireland with the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly. We are doing a study on illicit cross-Border activity. It was shocking. We met with the head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, PSNI, and the head of An Garda Síochána. We went to the PSNI station in Crossmaglen. We had to go to Newry to be transported by seven armoured cars through 50 miles of south Armagh to Crossmaglen. This is what people call normal and where Boris Johnson thinks that there can be a technical solution. While we were in the PSNI barracks in Crossmaglen, all the automatic number plate recognition cameras around south Armagh had been cut down. There were only two outside the barracks in Crossmaglen and people are talking about technical solutions to make sure that there would not be a hard border. This simply cannot happen. I appeal to Boris Johnson or any Conservative leadership candidate to go and see south Armagh and the area by the Border. We face a difficult issue if we have a hard border.