Backstop

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the Irish economy and Brexit represents threat to Ireland’s economic business model.
If the UK leaves the EU with a no-deal Brexit, London, according to The Scotsman online, will be able to repatriate all the turnover of multinationals that is currently re-routed to Ireland and tax it at the UK rates.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss how the UK appears to be willing to make concessions to its plans for the Northern Ireland border after Brexit.
This follows a meeting last week at a country house in the north-west of England, between Boris Johnson and his Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar, where the two leaders agreed that there is a “pathway to a possible Brexit deal.”

The Prime Minister’s Brexit deal was crushed by a historic margin of 202 in favor to 432 against. This is the worst-ever defeat in the House of Parliament. Theresa May barely survived a no-confidence vote in parliament on the next day.