Barriers to extending Article 50?published at 09:48 Greenwich Mean Time 17 January 2019
Tony Connelly - the Europe editor of Irish broadcaster RTE - has suggested Article 50 could only be extended if the House of Commons accepted the Irish backstop proposal - a red line for the majority of Brexiteer MPs.
Another complication, he says, would be the European Parliament elections coming up in May.
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