Attorney General Geoffrey Cox said in his latest legal advice that a return of loyalist violence in the North of Ireland could help Britain escape its international treaty obligations in regard to the border and the Good Friday Agreement.

Cox’s new legal advice is meant to help convince unionists and racist Tories to support the current Brexit deal and its 'backstop' provisions, which are intended to prevent a remilitarisation of the border.

Commentators said that the new Attorney General’s advice may be enough to squeeze the deal through parliament after it was rejected by British MPs last week for the second time. 

It is understood that many within the Tory government are trying to get an extension to the Brexit deadline, currently set for March 29, until June 30.

Sinn Fein's Chris Hazzard MP has said: “After yet another week of chaos in the British Parliament with ministerial resignations and bizarre and delusional votes, the North of Ireland is still facing the possibility of being dragged out of the EU and over an economic cliff edge in a no-deal Brexit.”