Quick guide Last-minute backstop changes explained Show Hide What was added to May's withdrawal agreement? Joint interpretative instrumentA legal add-on to the withdrawal agreement. Juncker said the legal add-on to the Brexit deal, which emphasises the temporary nature of the backstop, “complements the withdrawal agreement without reopening it”. The document is intended to have equal legal weight to the withdrawal agreement itself. Cox’s legal advice said the backstop “would endure indefinitely until a superseding agreement takes its place in whole or in part”.

Source: The Guardian March 12, 2019 09:03 UTC