UK Prime Minister Theresa May is due to meet European Commissioner Jean Claude-Juncker tomorrow, to seek agreement on alternative arrangements on Irish border backstop. Ahead of that, European Parliament’s Brexit coordinator Guy Verhofstadt warned that it’s irresponsible to ditch the backstop.
Verhofstadt tweeted, “Today I see Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and tomorrow Prime Minister May. My message to the UK will be that it is not very responsible to try to get rid of a backstop that is meant as an ultimate safeguard to avoid a hard border and the return of violence on the Island of Ireland.”
