{"id":139744,"date":"2019-07-31T11:53:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T10:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=139744"},"modified":"2019-07-31T11:54:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T10:54:13","slug":"brexit-boris-johnson-british-pm-irish-counterpart-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=139744","title":{"rendered":"Brexit: Boris Johnson, British PM, Irish Counterpart Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/UK-PM-Favourite-Boris-Johnson-Vows-To-Deliver-Brexit.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mr. Biris Johnson, British Prime Minister, and his Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar, have aired their disagreement over the backstop provision to guarantee an open Irish border after Brexit, the two sides disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Varadkar told Johnson on phone that the backstop clause in Britain\u2019s EU withdrawal agreement was necessary and the agreement could not be reopened, the Irish government said.<\/p>\n<p>He said London and Brussels could negotiate alternative arrangements to replace the backstop if Britain left EU under the withdrawal agreement, which was forged by Johnson\u2019s predecessor, Theresa May.<\/p>\n<p>Downing Street said Johnson made clear that the UK would be leaving the EU on October 31, no matter what.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe told Varadkar that his clear preference is to leave the EU with a deal, but it must be one that abolishes the backstop,\u201d it said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Biris Johnson, British Prime Minister, and his Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar, have aired their disagreement over the backstop provision to guarantee an open Irish border after Brexit, the two sides disclosed. Varadkar told Johnson on phone that the backstop clause in Britain\u2019s EU withdrawal agreement was necessary and the agreement could not be reopened, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[12298,12874,12875],"class_list":["post-139744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-boris-johnson","tag-british-pm","tag-irish"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}