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27/11/2018
PM To Visit NI To Lobby For EU Deal
Prime Minister Theresa May is due to visit Northern Ireland as part of a two-week push to sell her Brexit deal.
She will attend a community event at Queen's University Belfast on Tuesday 27 November to engage in discussions with groups from across society, including students, academics, community and religious leaders.
Mrs May is also set to meet the five main political parties at Stormont to urge them to get behind the deal, which is supported by major employers and trade associations, who have concerns over the implications of crashing out of the EU without a deal.
The DUP has said it will vote against the proposal, and review its parliamentary pact with the Conservatives that props up the government, if it is approved by MPs.
The SDLP, Alliance, Sinn Fein and the Green Party, who are all anti-Brexit, have welcomed the draft agreement.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said his party will oppose it, branding it "the worst of all worlds".
It is understood Mrs May will also use her visit to set out how the maintenance of the Common Travel Area and the backstop arrangement both honour the Belfast Agreement, and ensure there can be no return to past borders.
(JG/CM)
She will attend a community event at Queen's University Belfast on Tuesday 27 November to engage in discussions with groups from across society, including students, academics, community and religious leaders.
Mrs May is also set to meet the five main political parties at Stormont to urge them to get behind the deal, which is supported by major employers and trade associations, who have concerns over the implications of crashing out of the EU without a deal.
The DUP has said it will vote against the proposal, and review its parliamentary pact with the Conservatives that props up the government, if it is approved by MPs.
The SDLP, Alliance, Sinn Fein and the Green Party, who are all anti-Brexit, have welcomed the draft agreement.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said his party will oppose it, branding it "the worst of all worlds".
It is understood Mrs May will also use her visit to set out how the maintenance of the Common Travel Area and the backstop arrangement both honour the Belfast Agreement, and ensure there can be no return to past borders.
(JG/CM)
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