He said the changes should overcome lawmakers' qualms about a mechanism in the deal designed to keep an open border between Britain's Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland. Lidington said the new guarantee "provides confirmation that the EU cannot try to trap the U.K. in the backstop indefinitely." Lidington said lawmakers faced "a fundamental choice ... to vote for the improved deal or to plunge this country into a political crisis." EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier kissed her hand before they went inside for talks. Alan Wager, a Brexit expert at the U.K. in a Changing Europe think tank, said Parliament this week could decisively rule out both May's deal and a no-deal departure.

Source: Fox News March 11, 2019 22:41 UTC