Boris Johnson hints he may not support Rishi Sunak’s Northern Ireland deal
by Lisa O'Carroll and Jessica Elgot from World news | The Guardian on (#6954Q)
Ex-PM says controversial bill is best way forward as lawyers advising Tory Eurosceptics submit fresh proposal
Boris Johnson has hinted he may not support a proposed deal over the Northern Ireland protocol from Rishi Sunak, heaping pressure on the prime minister to revive a controversial bill that would unilaterally override parts of the Brexit treaty.
His intervention came on Thursday as it emerged that lawyers advising Eurosceptics in the Conservative party submitted fresh proposals to Sunak to end the rule of EU law in Northern Ireland, one of the major sticking points in the UK-EU negotiations over the protocol.
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