Attorney General says new deal changes reduce backstop risk ahead of key Brexit vote

LONDON -- British Attorney General Geoffrey Cox said on Tuesday that the newly secured legally binding changes to the Brexit deal will "reduce the risk" of his country being indefinitely and involuntarily held in the Irish backstop.

Cox also stressed that the legal risk remains unchanged that Britain would have no legal means of exiting without agreement of the European Union.

His comments came one day after British Prime Minister Theresa May secured legally binding changes to the deal in EU.

The British parliament is going to vote on the Brexit deal again later Tuesday.