Mr Cox said Britain could leave a customs union in the future - but Mr Howe said it will not be easy Martin Howe QC said the clause in Theresa May’s Brexit deal which stipulates the backstop policy
amounts to “real poison” and has the potential to place the country in a trap with no easy escape route. The chairman of Lawyers for Britain criticised Geoffrey Cox’s remarks about the UK’s ability to remove itself from a customs union at any point in the future.
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