Boris Johnson promised to tear up NI protocol, says DUP MP Ian Paisley

Paisley says Johnson told him he would sign up to changing that protocol and indeed tearing it up'

Boris Johnson gave personal assurances to the Northern Ireland MP Ian Paisley that he would commit to tearing up" the Brexit protocol that is now the centre of a major row between the UK and the EU, it has been claimed.

The Democratic Unionist party MP made the comments on BBC's Newsnight just hours after the prime minister's former adviser Dominic Cummings claimed it was always the intention to sign the withdrawal agreement in January 2020 but ditch bits" they did not like in the protocol.