The EU and UK have agreed on a Brexit withdrawal agreement and British Prime Minister Theresa May has summoned her ministers to view the text of plan last night, Sky News reports.
The agreed upon text between London and Brussels regarding the UK’s withdrawal from the bloc is understood to have finalised a proposed solution to the issue of the Irish border.
The issue of the border between the Republic and the North has been a major sticking point that has scuppered several previous attempts to finalise a withdrawal agreement.
When the UK leaves the EU in March 2019 the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland will become an EU external frontier which means under EU law, the Republic as the frontier state is obliged to impose border control unless the UK remained in the customs union.
A temporary backstop agreement meant to avoid the imposition of a hard border in Ireland had been proposed that would see a customs border in the Irish sea. However, unionists in Northern Ireland have outright rejected any kind of trade barrier between Britain and the six counties.
This complicates matters further for Prime Minister May as her party is currently in a confidence and supply arrangement with the DUP to maintain her governments majority in the House of Commons.
Details of the agreement are to be revealed and analysed in the coming days.