UK's Hunt: We can now see a way to get parliamentary majority for Brexit agreement

Further comments by UK foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt

• If we can make simple changes to backstop, we're confident a deal can get through
• Changing the backstop is the only way through this situation
• 29 March is an important deadline for Brexit, it is legally-binding
• Confident if we solve backstop issue, we can pass a Brexit deal through parliament

If the way to do so is via changes to the backstop, then it's pretty much a dead end because the European Union has insisted that they won't reopen the withdrawal agreement. Hunt sounds like a broken recorder here. If it were so simple to just solve the backstop issue, it wouldn't have taken two years now would it?