Ex-PM will fight to save Northern Ireland protocol bill – while Labour vows to support No 10 if it can reach deal with EU
With Johnson and the Tory right threatening to disrupt the deal,he was taking the extraordinary step of offering his party’s support in any parliamentary vote on the agreement, enabling Sunak to stop “scrambling around to appease an intransigent rump of his own backbenchers”.
While government insiders are at pains to state that there is much work to do on the details of any deal, they have signalled that a successful outcome would mean the bill would not be needed. “If we can find a way to satisfactorily resolve the issues with the protocol then you wouldn’t need the bill,” said a senior official. “But we haven’t resolved them yet.”
The new threat comes as Starmer called on Sunak to sidestep his hardline MPs by winning a vote on a deal withbacking. “This is no time for political brinkmanship,” he said. “This situation has dragged on for too long, and the stakes are too high. “Twenty-five years ago, politicians of all sides showed courage and leadership to strike a deal that many said would be impossible. They put people before politics. We owe it to the people of Northern Ireland to do the same again.”
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