EU assurance on Brexit reduces risk of Britain to trap in Irish backstop: Cox

The assurances Prime Minister Theresa May won from the European Union on her Brexit deal late on Monday make "significant reductions" in the risk of Britain being trapped in the so-called backstop, Attorney General Geoffrey Cox said on Tuesday.

"What this document does is address the risk that we could be kept in the backstop by bad faith and deliberate manipulation of the Union and what this does is making significant reductions in that risk," Cox told parliament. "The time has come now to vote for this deal."