UK negotiating team head back to Brussels as Tory remainers finally stand up to be counted
The UK’s attorney general, Geoffrey Cox, and the Brexit secretary, Steve Barclay, are back in Brussels on Tuesday. Their mission is to return with a firm “legal add-on” to enable May to tell MPs next week that Cox has changed his legal advice on the Irish backstop and he no longer believes it will “trap” the UK in a customs union with the EU indefinitely, as he averred in November.
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