The Democratic Unionist party has demanded the publication of government legal advice given to ministers about a possible Brexit deal, saying that it could not accept any solution that involved “annexing Northern Ireland from Great Britain”.
Jeffrey Donaldson, the DUP’s chief whip at Westminster, also reiterated the party’s warnings about a possible no-deal outcome, pouring cold water on hopes in Downing Street that a workable plan for the Irish border could be near.
At a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Theresa May asked the attorney general, Geoffrey Cox, to draw up legal plans for a “review mechanism” to resolve the Irish backstop issue.
Under the idea, which officials will try to finalise before another potential cabinet meeting later in the week, the UK could leave a temporary customs arrangement with the EU without being forced to accept a border in the Irish Sea.
Cox gave ministers a summary of legal advice setting out a series of options for Brexit, which included a warning that if the UK insisted on the right to unilaterally end a backstop it would increase the risk of no deal.
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