{"id":77708,"date":"2019-01-28T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T00:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/28\/blow-for-may-as-ireland-stresses-it-will-not-yield-on-brexit-backstop\/"},"modified":"2019-01-28T01:00:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T00:00:05","slug":"blow-for-may-as-ireland-stresses-it-will-not-yield-on-brexit-backstop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=77708","title":{"rendered":"Blow for May as Ireland stresses it will not yield on Brexit backstop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Coveney says situation is a result of UK red lines, as MPs prepare for key debateIreland has launched a last-minute effort to warn Theresa May off any attempt to unravel the backstop, two days before a crucial Commons debate that may decide the next move for the UK\u2019s rudderless Brexit policy.Simon Coveney, the Irish foreign minister and deputy prime minister, insisted the backstop \u2013 the mechanism to ensure there will be no hard border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland if Britain and the EU fail to strike a free trade deal \u2013 was \u201cpart of a balanced package that isn\u2019t going to change\u201d. In a forceful interview, he insisted it was only part of the withdrawal agreement because of the UK\u2019s red lines. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2019\/jan\/27\/blow-theresa-may-ireland-stresses-will-not-yield-brexit-backstop\" target=\"_blank\">Blow for May as Ireland stresses it will not yield on Brexit backstop<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Coveney says situation is a result of UK red lines, as MPs prepare for key debateIreland has launched a last-minute effort to warn Theresa May off any attempt to unravel the backstop, two days before a crucial Commons debate that may decide the next move for the UK\u2019s rudderless [&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-77708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77708","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=77708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}