Originally Posted by
Dragonfly
"Devastating" - that's how one influential Brexiteer described the attorney general's legal advice.
Yes, the Brexiteer lawyer Geoffrey Cox says the negotiations with the EU and tweaks to the deal have reduced the risk of the UK being stuck in the controversial backstop for ever and a day.
That's why last night, Theresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker looked so thrilled and delighted to have managed to broker something.
But what Mr Cox also says clearly is that the risk still exists.
Without going through the minutiae of the three-page legal opinion, in short, he has given the prime minister a fig leaf to try to patch a gaping political hole, rather than a generous cover with room to spare.