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DUP "fiercely" against an attempt to obtain approval of a possible compromise on Irish border support already announced by Theresa May, Sky News sources said .
Sky News has set up an informal poll with the DUP to accept some increased forms of "Irish Sea" checks between Northern Ireland and Great Britain, including on the sidelines of the Conference of the United States. preservatives.
A DUP delegation including Chief Arlene Foster arrived in Birmingham on Monday.
A source from DUP said: "Prime Minister understands our red line.No new frontiers in the sea of Ireland.Respect the economic and constitutional integrity of the United Kingdom."
A separate source said "that a number of different hybrid models" are proposed, all of which provide for an alignment of the UK on the relevant rules of the EU Customs Union.
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It will also provide for the specific regulatory alignment of Northern Ireland on the single market and technological controls, as well as additional physical controls on food and agriculture on British trade to destination of the ports of Northern Ireland and Ireland.
The proposals are intended to give the United Kingdom a certain freedom to start negotiations on foreign trade, but also to maintain the commercial conditions of an open border in Ireland.
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The government is trying to meet a deadline imposed at the Salzburg summit to present a detailed bump proposal for the EU summit in October.
This is to confirm with the EU27 the date of a special summit in November to sign a wider withdrawal agreement.
In Salzburg, the Prime Minister had privately suggested to Irish leader Leo Varadkar that this compromise plan could not be ready this month, but this date was insisted by the EU27 led by French President Emmanuel Macron.
The Prime Minister said in his subsequent statement to Salzburg Downing Street that further east-west regulatory audits of the Irish Sea could be made as part of the backstop, if approved by the Stormont assembly currently suspended.
A number of ministers have publicly and privately reiterated that any support that would have made Northern Ireland a separate customs territory from the rest of the United Kingdom would be unacceptable for their party, as for the DUP.
However, regulatory controls of the Irish Sea, particularly in the areas of food and agriculture, are being considered and already exist, to a small extent, already in cattle.
One option is to use one-way controls to control only products from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, thus allowing DUP to say that the access of its products to the UK markets would remain free. and without hindrance.
Michel Barnier's team has already indicated that many checks on tariffs, VAT and product standards could be done technologically, but that trade in food and agricultural products would require physical checks.
Steve Baker, the former Brexit Minister who resigned after the Checkers deal, told Sky News: "I would be very surprised if the UK adheres to this proposal.
"I can not imagine the DUP tolerating it even before you start thinking about what the conservative Eurosceptics would think.
"So, a border in the Irish Sea is the only thing in my opinion that the DUP would bring down the government."
