Jacob Rees-Mogg, a high profile Brexiteer Conservative, said that the could back Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal if there is a reasonably effective time limit on the Irish backstop.
Rees-Mogg told BBC ratio that “I can live with the de facto removal of the backstop…. I mean that if there is a clear date that says the backstop ends, and that is in the text of the treaty or equivalent of the text of the treaty”.
But he also insisted that the time limit should be “a short date, not a long date, then that would remove the backstop in the lifetime of parliament and that would have a reasonable effect from my point of view.”
