‘Cast iron’ backstop guarantee needed following Brexit Bill amendments – SF
FF says Government ‘should be getting worried’ and that backstop is now effectively unlawful
Michelle O’Neill (L) says it took Theresa May two years to work out Brexit path and ‘just two weeks to scupper her plan to placate her own backbenchers and the DUP’. File photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters
The Government must now seek “cast iron guarantees” on the Brexit backstop following following Monday night’s vote in Westminster, Sinn Féin has said.
The party’s deputy president Michelle O’Neill made the comments following MPs’ approval of a number of amendments to a customs Bill which Conservative Remainers tabled in protest against prime minister Theresa May’s Chequers proposal for a soft Brexit.