EU considers major climbdown to hand Boris Brexit deal victory in last minute panic express.co.uk

EUROPEAN UNION leaders could be about to offer Boris Johnson a major concession in a desperate bid to revive Brexit talks ahead of next week’s crunch summit.

“A landing zone on consent could be a double majority within Stormont, to leave, not to continue with arrangements after X years,” a European source told the Times.

Under the new plan, the EU would require both nationalist and unionist communities to consent to the end of the mechanism.

Therefore, the bloc could cite their commitment to the Good Friday Agreement in order to make the offer.

Mr Johnson’s proposals, which landed in Brussels last week, were shot down after the introduction of a consent mechanism, which the EU argued would essentially hand the DUP a veto.

The Prime Minister proposed that Northern Ireland would align itself with the EU’s single market but leave the customs union with the rest of the UK.