Back my Brexit deal or speed up a united Ireland, May warns

New laws on hold in Dáil to focus on emergency legislation

Endgame: UK Prime Minister Theresa May gives a speech at a factory in Stoke. Photo: AFP/Getty Images

Kevin Doyle

Ministers will today agree to essentially freeze work on all new laws as they bid to get ahead of a chaotic no-deal Brexit.

Just six pieces of non-Brexit related legislation have made it to the Government's priority list for the new term, the Irish Independent understands.