More on TM's GFA plan in the Daily Mail
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Theresa May 'considers rewriting Northern Ireland's Good Friday agreement to get her Brexit plan passed by Parliament'
Theresa May is considering rewriting
Northern Ireland's Good Friday agreement to get her
Brexit deal passed through Parliament.
The prime minister is expected to update MPs today on her 'Plan B' for Brexit after her disastrous first attempt was voted down in a historic Commons defeat.
Mrs May will now move to secure Conservative and DUP support by rewording the Irish backstop plan within the Withdrawal Agreement.
Ministers hope this will assure Ireland that the UK is committed to no hard border been Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland once the UK withdraws for the EU.
The PM hopes amending the agreement would avoid having to commit the UK to the backstop, but it will prove extremely controversial and would require consensus among all of the parties involved in Northern Ireland.
Sources said the move was a 'non-starter', the
Daily Telegraph reports and highlights the extent to which Mrs May is scrambling for leverage after last Tuesday's crushing defeat.
Clutching at unlikely straws time!