Latest updates: health secretary holds talks with Royal College of Nursing as NI protocol deal announcement draws closer
One person who did sell out the DUP over Northern Ireland is Boris Johnson. In 2019 he negotiated the current Northern Ireland protocol, requiring controls and checks on goods going from Great Britain to NI, despite the fact that a year before he had explicitly told the DUP conference that no British government could agree to such a damaging proposition.
Boris Johnson has not spoken out in person about the Sunak deal yet, although a “source close to” him told journalists at the weekend that Johnson was unhappy about Sunak’s decision to shelve the Northern Ireland protocol bill. In a story for the Times, Oliver Wright says Johnson is considering going public. Wright says:
Boris Johnson has privately claimed Rishi Sunak’s negotiating strategy with the European Union is “wholly irrational” and is considering whether to come out publicly against a deal …
Allies say Johnson would “100 per cent” criticise the deal publicly if he felt it took Britain towards closer alignment with the EU. “He says this is either a government of Brexit or it is nothing,” said one.
Let’s give the prime minister a chance to come out with something.
He’s attacking this, he is throwing everything he can. He voted for and campaigned hard for Brexit, right?
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