Brexit is now hanging in the balance after the U.K. government submitted last-ditch proposals to the EU as the departure date of October 31 fast approaches.
the so-far intractable issue of the Irish "backstop" designed to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland
"They do not deliver everything that we would have wished. They do represent a compromise," Johnson said. "But to remain a prisoner of existing positions is to become a cause of deadlock rather than breakthrough." He said the government had "made a genuine attempt to bridge the chasm, to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable. And to go the extra mile as time runs short.
Even if the EU agrees to this amended Brexit deal, it's far from certain that a majority of the British Parliament will approve the deal. Although, the U.K.'s Telegraph newspaper reported Thursday that around 25 opposition Labour MPs could back it along with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, Conservative lawmakers and other rebel Brexiteer MPs.
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