UK Prime Minister Theresa May said earlier in an open letter to EU leaders that no UK leader would use the Irish border issue as “crude leverage in a trade negotiation”.
Both the United Kingdom and the European Union have been striving to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The drive to resolve the issue stems from the need to uphold a solution to a decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland.
Many lawmakers, including May’s fellow Conservatives and the Democratic Unionist Party backing her government in Commons, have repeatedly expressed concern over the backstop solution for Northern Ireland’s border with the Republic of Ireland.
Faced with the threat of a “disorderly” Brexit, opposition urged the prime minister to pledge that the UK government will not settle for a no-deal Brexit.The future of the Brexit agreement is now unclear and a no-deal scenario, which implies a UK withdrawal from the European Union without formal arrangements for the post-Brexit relationship between the two sides, remains highly possible. Theresa May is expected to present the proposed amendment to alternative Brexit solution on Monday.