Boris Johnson is still considering weighing in to denounce Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal on Northern Ireland but is believed to be waiting for the DUP’s verdict before he makes his mind up
is still considering weighing in to denounce Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal on Northern Ireland but is believed to be waiting for the DUP’s verdict before he makes his mind up.missed his opportunity to influence the debate
A number of his supporters predicted that he would wait for the views of the Democratic Unionist Party and the European Research Group of Tory MPs before going public. One MP toldAnother source said: “I think there’s a sense of no one being willing to put their head above the parapet yet as they’re not sure how much backup they’ll have.” And an ERG member added: “I don’t think he will want to be the first to say something on this… I would imagine he will be minded not to be an outlier.
Nadine Dorries, the former Culture Secretary, became the first prominent Johnson supporter to denounce the Brexit deal, saying that Northern Ireland’s mooted veto on new EU legislation “doesn’t actually exist” and accusing the Government of “huge quantities of smoke, mirrors and spin”. She added: “It is also patently not true that we have ‘removed any sense of a border in the Irish Sea.’ Checks are being reduced, not eliminated.
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