EU rejects May’s appeal for Backstop change

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LEAH NEWMAN ON HEALTH SCARE FOR NEIL THERESA May’s plea for the EU to hand her a lifeline and change the Backstop was brutally rejected by its chief negotiator last night.

The Prime Minister appealed directly to EU leaders urging them to support alterations she needs to appease the DUP and her own MPs.

Theresa May said: “Now is the moment for us to act.”

But Michel Barnier said the EU would not take the heat for the stalemate. He said: “We are not interested in the blame game, we are interested in the result.”

Mr Barnier said Brussels was ready to offer the UK the chance to exit the customs union without the EU’s permission. But only if other parts of the Backstop designed to ensure no hard border in Ireland were kept. This would mean Northern Ireland having different rules to the rest of the UK.