The U.K. is trying to find a legal way around the thorny issue of the 'Irish backstop.'
The U.K. is trying to find a legal way around the thorny issue of the"Irish backstop" and, if it does, Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal could be much more attractive to British lawmakers.
The backstop would mean that the U.K. would be aligned to EU custom rules until a future trade relationship is agreed, but many politicians don't like the fact that it has an indefinite nature and requires the EU's permission to end. The ERG has reportedly set up a panel of lawyers ready to scrutinize any agreement that Cox can get from Brussels. For Cox's part, he denies a report in the Daily Telegraph newspaper Tuesday that he had given up hope of trying to get the EU to agree a time limit to the backstop.But analysts are not convinced Cox will get much out of the EU, which has consistently refused to budge over the Brexit deal.
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