Brexit backstop legal risk unchanged, says UK A-G
Attorney-General Geoffrey Cox says if the EU and UK were sincere, it is 'highly unlikely' that a subsequent agreement that would avoid the backstop kicking in would not be concluded. – EPA pic, March 12, 2019.
THE legal risk of Britain being stuck in EU trade arrangements after Brexit fundamentally “remains unchanged”, the UK government’s chief legal adviser said today. Attorney-General Geoffrey Cox said last-minute new agreements “reduce the risk” of Britain being “indefinitely and involuntarily” held in the so-called Irish border backstop.
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