Britain's Secretary of State for Departing the EU David Davis and Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox leave 10 Downing Street in London, June 7, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May unveiled a one-year backstop plan for the Irish border after Brexit on Thursday, finding a compromise that may paper over differences in her government but may also struggle to win over the European Union.
After 24 hours of scrambling to keep her Brexit minister, David Davis, on board, May published what the government called the temporary customs arrangement. This would ensure no return to a hard border involving reinstated customs controls on the frontier between the British province of Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland.
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