UK attorney general issues legal advice on Theresa May's claimed Brexit breakthrough, says it does not change the legal risk that the UK could be trapped in the Irish backstop indefinitely. Follow live updates:
Conservative lawmakers and members of Prime Minister Theresa May's Cabinet are urging their colleagues to back her"improved" deal today.UK Attorney General Geoffrey Cox will deliver a statement to lawmakers at about 12:30 p.m. GMT today laying out his legal opinion on the Brexit deal, the leader of the House of Commons, Andrea Leadsom, confirmed on Twitter.
"It does not reopen the withdrawal agreement or undermine the backstop or its application," Varadkar said in a televised statement Tuesday morning, calling the move"positive." the unilateral declaration by the UK titled ‘Declaration by Her Majesty’s Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning the Northern Ireland Protocol’, setting out the sovereign action the UK would take to provide assurance that the backstop would only be applied temporarily;
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