This is what the backstop means for Brexit

The backstop was a major factor in parliament’s rejection of former prime minister Theresa May’s Brexit dealBrussels — With few options left to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to achieve his goal of taking Britain out of the EU on October 31, officials in Brussels say that he may need to return to the idea of a Northern Ireland-only backstop to get a Brexit deal done.

The EU had initially proposed to apply that mechanism only to Northern Ireland but former UK prime minister Theresa May said it would be unacceptable for one of the regions of the UK to diverge from the rest of the country. • The backstop was a major factor in parliament’s rejection of May’s Brexit deal and Johnson has now made it clear that Britain wants to distance itself from the bloc’s regulations after Brexit. That led the EU to demand protection for its cherished single market from dumping prices and unfair competition that could arise from the open Irish border.

While that does not address the EU’s demand to ensure fair competition while avoiding border controls, EU officials and diplomats stress any return to a limited version of backstop increasingly looks like the only possible compromise.• “What’s there not to like?” a senior EU diplomat said of such a solution, while others stressed that the bloc had previously agreed to such a mechanism and had completed all the legal and drafting work around it, meaning it could be revived swiftly.

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