Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly expecting to ask European Union leaders to veto an extension to Article 50 to exploit a loophole in anti-Brexit legislation aimed at stopping a clean-break exit.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told EU leaders he will not meet to discuss Brexit with them until they are ready to renegotiate the exit treaty.
Forty-three Brexiteer Tory MPs are set to vote against any amended EU-approved exit treaty put to the House of Commons, and are urging Boris Johnson to take the UK out of the EU on October 31st without a deal.
Senior Conservative Party backbenchers are calling on Prime Minister Theresa May to limit the controversial Irish backstop by one year or remove it completely from her withdrawal agreement.
EU bureaucrats have backed plans by opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn that would keep the UK closely aligned to the EU, after refusing to reopen negotiations on the Withdrawal Agreement with Prime Minister Theresa May. President of the European Council Donald
Prime Minister Theresa May has ruled out removing the Irish backstop from the Withdrawal Agreement, claiming the “insurance policy” prevents a “hard border.” Mrs May described her commitment to maintaining the Good Friday Agreement and avoiding a hard border as “unshakeable,”
Veteran Northern Irish politician David Trimble is backing a court challenge to the British Government over the Withdrawal Agreement which he says could threaten the Good Friday Agreement.
Brexit architect Nigel Farage has said that Ireland’s prime minister, Leo Varadkar, is playing “the Brussels game of threatening the British” over the Irish border.
Democratic Unionist Party MP Gregory Campbell has said Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar must “dial down the rhetoric” after the Taoiseach claimed the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland may need an “army presence” in the result of a no-deal Brexit.
Sammy Wilson MP has said that there is no way the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) will support Prime Minister Theresa May’s EU Withdrawal Agreement, which Members of Parliament are due to vote on next week.
Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage has said he doubts Prime Minister Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement will pass in the House of Commons, while a poll has revealed voters reject the deal two to one.
Brussels bureaucrats have rejected suggestions that the withdrawal agreement with the UK can be renegotiated, while the European Union ramps up preparation for a clean Brexit.
