“Mrs May’s humiliating climb down highlights her folly in trying to push ahead with a deal that will never fly in Parliament. But, clearly, she has learned nothing because all she is now talking about is “assurances”, which will be meaningless in comparison to the legal text of the Withdrawal Agreement which she is not seeking to change. So without changes in the legal text any assurances would be whitewash that should fool no one.
“In peddling again the nonsense that we must have the Backstop because of the Belfast Agreement, Mrs May is being disingenuous. The Belfast Agreement does not require NI to be in the EU Customs Union: the Backstop does. The Belfast Agreement does not require a border down the Irish Sea: the Backstop does. The Belfast Agreement does not prohibit border infrastructure, but who would build this infrastructure, which is emotively called ‘a hard border’? Dublin says it won’t. The UK says it won’t. So, why is she insisting on a destructive Backstop on this false premise?
“This is a Prime Minister who has utterly lost her way. She should go and go now.”