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Should Ireland Compromise On Backstop?


 

  • CapX presents five reasons Ireland should reconsider its firm position on the backstop, still a key element of Teresa May’s Brexit agreement, widely reviled by Euroskeptic Tories who claim it will keep the UK locked in a customs union with the EU indefinitely.

 

  • The basic underlying argument, of course, is that it would avert a hideous economic catastrophe.