Comments by UK PM spokesman, James Slack

  • May to seek legally-binding changes to backstop in meeting with Juncker
  • Government still working on alternative arrangements for backstop
  • UK still looking to reopen the withdrawal agreement
  • Cabinet has discussed no-deal Brexit planning

This could've been a copy-paste of a December headline and you wouldn't be able to spot the difference, really. The European Commission has continued to state that there would be no renegotiation/reopening of the withdrawal agreement, yet here we are. Feels like it's just a bunch of play acting all the way until things get down and dirty in late March.

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