Under a proposal by Brussels, Northern Ireland would be represented in trade negotiations and in the World Trade Organisation on tariffs by the European Commission, not its own national government, said May
"The economic and constitutional dislocation of a formal 'third country' customs border within our own country is something I will never accept and I believe no British Prime Minister could ever accept," added May.
"The reality is that any agreement we reach with the EU will have to provide for the frictionless movement of goods across the Northern Ireland border," she said.
May said some argued that Britain should declare it will not impose any checks at the border after Brexit, and if the EU required the Irish government to introduce checks, the blame would lie with them.
Insisting that would be wrong, May said: "We can't solve it on our own, but nor can we wash our hands of any responsibility for it. So we must work together to solve it."
May said in order to move the negotiations with Brussels on a future relationship forward Britain needed to put a credible third option on the table.
The whole of Britain will be outside the Customs Union and European Single Market, free to sign trade deals with countries around the world, said May adding that Britain will have regulatory freedom over its services sector, which accounts for 80 percent of the British economy.
The concept of no border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic was enshrined by the government's of the two countries, and backed by a referendum of people across the island of Ireland. It was a key part 20 years ago of the Belfast Agreement that brought to an end decades of troubles which led to around 3,000 deaths.
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