Much of Mrs May`s initial Brexit deal will remain within the framework of the overall deal. Some of the key areas are: EU officials have said they need the hard details of a Brexit withdrawal deal within hours, not days before an EU summit takes place. Michel Barnier, the EU`s chief negotiator, said three issues needed to be addressed. (15.10.2019) Finally, Mrs May`s agreement was refused and the backstop was replaced by the Northern Ireland Protocol. Boris Johnson succeeded May in July 2019 as Conservative prime minister and British prime minister, after he was unable to break the Brexit blockade and had his withdrawal deal with the EU rejected three times by Parliament. Mr Johnson`s election has raised doubts about how the UK will withdraw until the next meeting on 31 October, as he described the withdrawal agreement as a “dead letter” during his campaign for the presidency and called for the backstop to be removed from the withdrawal agreement. Brussels and Dublin insisted that the withdrawal agreement not be renegotiated and that the backstop should not be withdrawn from the agreement. The project contains ten annexes. The first is a protocol to maintain an open border between the EU and the UK on the island of Ireland (usually known as the “Irish Backstop”).

The second is the rules for establishing a common customs territory between the EU and the UK until a technical solution that allows both an open border and an independent customs policy can be found. The third area concerns the activities of the common customs territory. The fourth area concerns “good governance in the areas of taxation, environmental protection, social and labour standards, state aid, competition and state-owned enterprises. The five to eighteen provisions relate to the relevant provisions of EU law. In the ninth and tenth versions of the procedures that arise from the main sections of the project. However, it is not certain that Johnson will be able to provide the necessary support to get the agreement through the British Parliament. The issue is so worrying that the new agreement completely omits it. Instead, the debate on equal conditions of competition has been attributed to the non-binding political declaration between the two parties, which means that it may be amended in the future.

The Assembly could vote on the agreement every year. And if the Assembly decided to withdraw from the agreement, EU trade rules would then remain in force for two years, so that the parties could try to find another way to avoid a hard border. If there is no agreement during this two-year period, Ireland could return to a form of hard border, but it is unlikely to happen. Details of Prime Minister Boris Johnson`s new Brexit deal with the European Union are included in 64 pages of revisions to the old withdrawal agreement and a roadmap for future relations. On 15 January 2019, the House of Commons voted with 230 votes against the Brexit withdrawal agreement[10] the largest vote against the British government in history. [31] The government may survived a vote of confidence the next day. [10] On March 12, 2019, the House of Commons voted 149 votes against the agreement, the fourth-biggest defeat of the government in the history of the House of Commons. [32] A third vote on the Brexit withdrawal agreement, widely expected on 19 March 2019, was rejected by the House of Commons spokesman on 18 March 2019, on the basis of a parliamentary convention of 2 April 1604, which prevented British governments from forcing the House of Commons to vote several times on a subject already voted on by the House of Commons. [34] [35] [36] An abbreviated version of the withdrawal agreement, in which the annex political statement had been withdrawn, consisted of the test of “substantial amendments,” so that a third vote was held on 29 March 2019, but was rejected by 58 votes. [37] In the absence of a backstop, the creation of border infrastructure would be contrary to the terms of the Good Friday Peace Agreement – a treaty between the United Kingdom and Ireland ending decades of paramilitary conflict in the region, which