Despite Cox’s miraculous unicorn, Mrs May’s deal will not deliver Brexit

There are reports in today’s papers that the Attorney-General, Geoffrey Cox, is having secret talks with the DUP to persuade them that there is a way out of the Irish backstop trap after all. It was the Attorney’s opinion on Tuesday that, despite the EU’s concessions on the backstop, the legal risk of the UK being trapped in the backstop with “no internationally lawful means of exiting” except with the EU’s agreement “remained unchanged”. His blunt assessment provoked government fury that he had thus failed to provide the Brexiteers with…

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