Brexit talks are back, after two weeks in suspended animation, with the Irish border the only show in town. But while a deal on a border ‘backstop’ is “very close”, according to EU sources, it’s not yet clear if it will gain support from all sides.
The pieces are beginning to fall into place.
The European Commission has been tinkering with the language in its original ‘backstop’ proposal, and after a series of meetings in Brussels on Thursday, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said:...