european union: With less than nine weeks until the United Kingdom is due by law to leave the European Union on March 29, there is no agreement yet in London on how and even whether to leave the world's biggest trading bloc, according to Nine News Australia. Parliament defeated May's deal two weeks ago by a huge margin with many Brexit-supporting rebels in her party angry at the Irish backstop, an insurance policy aimed at preventing a hard border in Ireland if no other solutions can be agreed. To improve your experience update it here News World Boris Johnson says ditch Irish backstop By AAP6 56pm Jan 28, Johnson, the most prominent Brexit campaigner in Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative party says she would get widespread support if she got the European Union to ditch the Irish backstop. The PM wants to get rid of the backstop, Boris Johnson wrote in the Daily Telegraph, saying May could insert a Freedom Clause to allow the United Kingdom to get out of the backstop without the agreement of the EU. If the PM secures that change - a proper UK-sized perforation in the fabric of the backstop itself - I have no doubt that she will have the whole country full-throatedly behind her, the former foreign secretary said. On January 29, parliament will debate May's proposed next steps as well as alternative plans put forward by lawmakers, including some that seek to delay Britain's exit by requesting an extension to the Article 50 negotiation period. He said very senior sources in the government had told him that May would seek binding legal changes to the deal she agreed in November with the EU. Ireland has said it doesn't want any changes to the backstop.
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