Maybe the right-wing anti-democracy rebels don’t have the best plan for the UK’s future?
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The statement, however, casts further doubt on May’s hopes of securing any meaningful changes to the controversial Northern Ireland backstop, as demanded by significant numbers of British lawmakers.
The backstop is the insurance policy for avoiding a hard border between Ireland, which will remain in the EU, and Northern Ireland after the UK has left the EU.
A majority of MPs in the UK House of Commons voted last week for May to replace the backstop with “alternative arrangements.”
Conservative MPs fear that the backstop in its current form would leave the UK tied to EU rules with no say in shaping them for years after Brexit, while Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, which props up May’s government, says it would create unacceptable new checks between Northern Ireland and the island of Great Britain.
Maybe the right-wing anti-democracy rebels don’t have the best plan for the UK’s future?
" …
The statement, however, casts further doubt on May’s hopes of securing any meaningful changes to the controversial Northern Ireland backstop, as demanded by significant numbers of British lawmakers.
The backstop is the insurance policy for avoiding a hard border between Ireland, which will remain in the EU, and Northern Ireland after the UK has left the EU.
A majority of MPs in the UK House of Commons voted last week for May to replace the backstop with “alternative arrangements.”
Conservative MPs fear that the backstop in its current form would leave the UK tied to EU rules with no say in shaping them for years after Brexit, while Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, which props up May’s government, says it would create unacceptable new checks between Northern Ireland and the island of Great Britain.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/theresa-may-demands-to-renegotiate-brexit-deal-rejected-by-eu-2019-2