May will seek “legal and political reassurances” from European officials at the start of an EU council summit on Thursday, over the widely maligned backstop clause in her Brexit divorce deal.
EU leaders have so far shown no willingness publicly to renegotiate any aspect of the Brexit deal struck with the United Kingdom in November.
Critics of the backstop, which would guarantee no hard border is erected on the island of Ireland in the event that post-Brexit trade negotiations between the UK and the bloc prove unsuccessful, argue it could tie the UK into the EU’s orbit indefinitely.
Al Jazeera’s Andrew Simmons has the latest.
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