Sterling is knocked down sharply after UK Attorney General Geoffrey Cox published is updated legal advice up the new Brexit deal agreed by UK Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker late Monday. In short, Cox said that he new documents “reduce the risk” the UK is trapped indefinitely in the Northern Ireland backstop. But such risk is not eliminated.
And most importantly, as Cox’s letter concluded: “the legal risk remains unchanged that if through no such demonstrable failure to either party, but simply because of intractable differences, that situation does arise, the United Kingdom would have, at least while the fundamental circumstances remained the same, no internationally lawful means of exiting the Protocol’s arrangements, save by agreement”.
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