Earlier last month, the House of Commons or the lower house of the British parliament voted down May's Brexit deal with the EU, demanding her to renegotiate with the latter.

But the EU has clearly said that it will not reopen negotiations with Britain over the Withdrawal Agreement reached between the two sides.

The backstop, a temporary arrangement to avoid a hard border or physical infrastructure such as customs houses and checkpoints along the Ireland-Northern Ireland border after Brexit, has become a main stumbling block to an agreement between the EU and Britain.

The EU insists that the backstop should remain in place until and unless a better solution is found to avoid a hard border after Brexit whereas most of the members of the British parliament are afraid that the backstop could tie Britain to the EU rules indefinitely through the backstop without a time limit.

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