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Boris’s nightmare is that the EU accepts his Brexit offer

24 August 2019

3:30 PM

24 August 2019

3:30 PM

As was to be expected, the EU’s reaction to Boris Johnson’s offer of revisiting the Withdrawal Agreement if the backstop is removed has been to reject it out of hand. But there are still 68 days to go before the UK is due to leave the EU and if the EU’s resolve wavers between now and then, Boris’s high-risk strategy could come back to haunt him.

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