Rishi Sunak is prepared to face down the Democratic Unionist Party over its powersharing boycott in Northern Ireland despite its plan to vote against his “useless” Brexit deal this week, theipaper understands
Mr Sunak has tried to sell the brake as giving unionists in Northern Ireland an effective “veto” over the changing of EU law that applies in the region under its post-Brexit status of remaining in the European single market for goods but also the UK internal market, which is necessary to maintain an invisible border with the Republic of Ireland.
The laws made clear that UK ministers can override Stormont’s attempts to apply the veto in “exceptional circumstances” or if they conclude that the Brussels regulations would not create a regulatory border between Northern Ireland and the UK mainland. “For weeks, the Windsor Framework has been oversold and now the wildest assertions are being laid bare as its details are examined and publicly revealed,” he said after seeing the legislation.
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