Rishi Sunak's Brexit deal under threat amid mounting DUP concerns over Stormont Brake

Some DUP figures are concerned they will not be able to sell Windsor Framework to unionist voters due to questions over veto powers, EU trade wars and red tape 🔴 Exclusive from singharj

There are also concerns around the level of bureaucracy that may still be required under a new “green lane” for trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland across the Irish Sea and the prospect of ongoing trade diversion as a result.

The DUP is seen as key to the political viability of the deal, with the likelihood and strength of a rebellion by Conservative arch-Brexiteers,Chris Heaton-Harris He also said that clarity would be provided in coming days over the workings of the Stormont brake and that he hoped that with time and space the new UK-EU deal would pave the way for the DUP to drop its boycott over post-Brexit trade terms of Stormont powersharing institutions.programme that he believes most unionist concerns with the deal relate to the Acts of Union.

“There are concerns amongst unionists and we believe that we can, through the Northern Ireland Act 1998, provide a whole host of proper legal assurances.

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