BREXIT LIFELINE: Hope for May as 'SUBSTANTIVE' changes made to backstop to get deal agreed express.co.uk

THERESA May’s Brexit deal still has a chance of winning over Parliament following claims “substantive changes” have been made to limit the impact of the Irish backstop. The Prime Minister’s deal has been rejected twice by MPs over concerns the UK would not have a way out of the Irish backstop without consulting the EU first. But former Northern Ireland first minister Lord Trimble has hinted changes secured with the EU have improved its chances of getting through the Commons. He said the Tory government had “succeeded in securing substantive changes that will affect and limit the impact of the Irish backstop”.