UK's May wants Irish deal to kill backstop in Brexit deal-paper

British Prime Minister Theresa May plans to seek a bilateral treaty with the Irish government as a way to remove the contentious backstop arrangement from Britain's divorce deal with the European Union, a newspaper reported.

The Sunday Times said aides to May thought such a move would allow her to win support for her Brexit plan from the Democratic Unionist Party that supports May's minority government and from pro-Brexit rebel lawmakers in her Conservative Party.

(Writing by William Schomberg Editing by Marguerita Choy)