{"id":44237,"date":"2018-06-07T15:47:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T13:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/07\/michel-barnier-raises-doubts-about-uks-brexit-backstop-plan-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2018-06-07T15:47:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T13:47:03","slug":"michel-barnier-raises-doubts-about-uks-brexit-backstop-plan-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=44237","title":{"rendered":"Michel Barnier raises doubts about UK&#039;s Brexit backstop plan \u2013 Politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EU\u2019s chief Brexit negotiator questions plan unveiled on Thursday. Rolling coverage of the day\u2019s political developments as they happenGovernment Brexit backstop plan &#8211; Snap summary and analysisBarnier raises doubts about UK Brexit backstop plan 2.47pm BST Sky\u2019s Lewis Goodall thinks David Davis hasn\u2019t come out of it all that badly.Lots of talk that para 26 isn\u2019t a time limit but just an expectation of one. True- but remember to read paragraph 6 too. That explicitly says that the backstop would be time limited. Number 10 has written one paragraph for brexiteers one for Brussels and hoping neither notices. pic.twitter.com\/HVMBY5NxsmDon\u2019t think DD has been outwitted especially. Ultimately he has inserted a date, albeit a caveated one, flexed his muscles and shown the whole of Westminster (esp Civil servants\/number 10) that an agreement can\u2019t be made without him. That\u2019s not a bad morning\u2019s work. 2.42pm BST Here is the Irish government\u2019s statement on the UK\u2019s new plan for the Brexit backstop. It is from Simon Coveney, the foreign minister and deputy prime minister. He says there must be \u201csubstantial progress\u201d on the backstop plan by the time of the EU summit at the end of June.&#8221;It remains vital that a legally-binding backstop is agreed to provide certainty that, in all circumstances, a hard border will be avoided.&#8221; T\u00e1naiste @simoncoveney today issued a statement on the publication of UK proposals in #Brexit negotiations pic.twitter.com\/zrf8G5ymox Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/blog\/live\/2018\/jun\/07\/former-brexit-minister-says-mays-backstop-plan-extremely-damaging-for-britain-politics-live\" target=\"_blank\">Michel Barnier raises doubts about UK&#039;s Brexit backstop plan \u2013 Politics live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU\u2019s chief Brexit negotiator questions plan unveiled on Thursday. Rolling coverage of the day\u2019s political developments as they happenGovernment Brexit backstop plan &#8211; Snap summary and analysisBarnier raises doubts about UK Brexit backstop plan 2.47pm BST Sky\u2019s Lewis Goodall thinks David Davis hasn\u2019t come out of it all that badly.Lots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}