The advice of the government’s top lawyer on Brexit assurances on the Irish backstop will be “critical” if it is to be passed by members of parliament, former Brexit secretary David Davis said.
Prime Minister Theresa May’s deal offers the best solution on Brexit, said French European Affairs Minister Nathalie Loiseau on Tuesday, ahead of a crucial vote in the British parliament on May’s proposal.
The future of Britain’s exit from the European Union hung in the balance on Tuesday as lawmakers prepared to vote on a divorce deal after Prime Minister Theresa May won last-minute assurances from the European Union.
The British government’s top lawyer on Tuesday denied speculation that he was ordered to validate Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal assurances against his will.
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Two members of the Northern Irish party propping up Britain’s minority government raised the prospect of delaying Tuesday’s parliamentary vote on the Brexit divorce deal if more time was needed to scrutinise assurances secured from the EU.
Legally binding assurances on Brexit that Britain won from the European Union do not undermine the backstop or its application in avoiding a hard border on the island of Ireland, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on ...Read More
The future of Britain’s exit from the European Union hung in the balance on Tuesday as lawmakers prepared to vote on a divorce deal after Prime Minister Theresa May won last-minute assurances from the European Union.
Britain’s former Brexit Secretary David Davis said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal may be acceptable if the government’s top lawyer said clearly that the new assurances have legal force.
The future of Britain’s exit from the European Union hung in the balance on Tuesday as lawmakers prepared to vote on a divorce deal after Prime Minister Theresa May won last-minute assurances from the European Union.
British Prime Minister Theresa May’s assurances on her Brexit divorce deal are not even close to the changes that she promised lawmakers, opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Tuesday.