PM to put new plan to cabinet and Commons as Geoffrey Cox says legal risk over backstop ‘remains unchanged’Full story: Risk of indefinite backstop remainsMay deal: has anything changed?Guide to this week’s crucial votes 1.48pm GMT John Bercow, the speaker, bring the Cox statement to an end. There are still MPs who want to speak, but he says there is not time, because dozens of MPs want to speak in the debate later. 1.47pm GMT Cox says the UK can use the leverage of the backstop as a powerful argument against the EU, because it will not want the UK to remain in it any more than the UK will want it to endure. Continue reading…
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