turning thejoint letter from president assad and president yunker of the 14th of january —— presidentident jean—claude juncker. it adds nothing. understatements that there is no duty to replicate what is in the backstop, here in this letter of the backstop, here in this letter of the 14th of january. it is not new, thatis the 14th of january. it is not new, that is not today, that was in the letter. if all that is happening is to turn this letter into an interpretation tool for legal purposes, i remind the house let the prime minister said on the 14th of january about this letter. she said that she had been advised that this letter "what have legal force and international law" of such a stand here today and say this is a significant change when she is repeating what she said on the 14th of january is not repeating what she said on the 14th ofjanuary is not going to take anyone very far. hear, hear! we will look at the detail and whether the withdrawal agreement has been changed. show it to us first! i am looking forward, mr speaker, to the reaction tomorrow when the withdrawal agreeme

less than 24 hours after may flew to france to meet with european commission president jean claude yunkert was voted down in january. >> joining us, steve, good morning to you. what are the main sticking points here at preventing the deal from getting the support that it needs? >> it's very good to be with you. there are so many sticking points that parliamentarians, so many things they agree that they can't agree on. what they do agree on, if that makes sense to you. basically, the main sticking points are the irish backstop. which is something put in place to prevent a hard border so they don't want that so they have a backstop in place, it would be between the north, northern ireland, a part of the uk, the south, the republic of ireland. nobody wants to return to the hard border. nobody within the conservative party seems to have an agreement on how to move beyond the backstop, that's why so many mps didn't back their leader, mrs. may yesterday. >> all right. so let me get this perspective. what can happen between now and then to avert or will they have to life with it? >> reporter: it