MANCHESTER, ENGLAND (REUTERS) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson cautioned the European Union on Saturday (July 27) that the Irish backstop, which he said was undemocratic, needed to be ditched if they were to strike a Brexit divorce deal.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson cautioned the European Union on Saturday that the Irish backstop, which he said was undemocratic, needed to be ditched if they were to strike a Brexit divorce deal.
"If we get rid of the backstop, whole and entire, then we are making a lot of progress," Johnson said, when asked if it is was only the Irish border backstop that he wanted changed. Johnson said he did not want a no-deal Brexit, which investors fear will send shock waves through global markets and hurt the world's economy, but that the United Kingdom had to prepare for a no-deal.The backstop is an insurance policy designed to prevent the return of border controls along the 500km land border between Ireland and Britain's province of Northern Ireland that were ended by the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement.
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