DUP unconcerned at renewed UK pledge to ‘backstop’
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The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is unconcerned by the UK government’s renewed commitment to a “backstop” solution avoiding a hard border post-Brexit, a party source has said.
The party, which keeps Conservative prime minister Theresa May in power at Westminster, has said her government had not changed its position on the EU’s draft legal text on the Withdrawal Agreement, and that it was unconcerned because vital sections have yet to be agreed.