Prime Minister Theresa May's top government lawyer heads to Brussels on Tue...
LONDON - Prime Minister Theresa May’s top government lawyer heads to Brussels on Tuesday, a last-ditch bid to secure changes to a Brexit deal needed to get the agreement through parliament and smooth Britain’s departure from the European Union.
May has charged her team, Attorney General Geoffrey Cox and Brexit minister Stephen Barclay, with securing changes to the so-called Irish backstop, an insurance policy to prevent the installation of a “hard border” between the British province of Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland if a future trading relationship falls short.
“Our ask of the EU is an important ask ... but it is one ask and it’s a simple one. We need substantive changes that will allow the attorney general to change his advice to the government that says that, at the moment, theoretically, we could be trapped in the backstop indefinitely.” Ministers are hoping that Cox, a successful senior private lawyer, can convince eurosceptic lawmakers that he has done enough to remove the threat of Britain ending up in the EU’s customs union indefinitely - something Brexit supporters say would make a mockery of the 2016 vote to leave the bloc.
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