U.K. Ministers Head to Brussels Seeking Elusive Brexit Deal
- Negotiators ponder using 1969 agreement as border escape route
- EU looking at reassurances over temporary nature of backstop
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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May will face her divided cabinet on Tuesday as the attorney general and Brexit secretary travel to Brussels to seek concessions from the European Union to help win Parliament’s backing for her divorce deal.
With just a week until she has to put her Brexit agreement to the House of Commons in a make-or-break vote, U.K. negotiators are reaching into obscure international treaty law to find a fix for the most toxic part of the split.