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Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
EU has no intention of keeping British in backstop “trap” – Kelly
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
Theresa May is expected to be heavily defeated by MPs when she puts her Brexit deal to a vote in the House of Commons later this evening.
The impending defeat comes despite recent assurances from the EU that the backstop arrangement for Northern Ireland would be temporary if triggered. And the EU said it would last for the shortest possible period if it came into force.
The Fine Gael Sean Kelly, who’s attending this week’s European Parliament session in Strasbourg, said those assurances are supposed to ease British fears that the backstop would keep them tied to the EU for years.
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