Several Tory MPs may join DUP in voting against Brexit ‘Stormont brake’

Anger among European Research Group over vote on key part of Windsor framework for Northern Ireland

Rishi Sunak faces a reckoning from hardline Brexiters on his backbenches who are prepared to follow the Democratic Unionist party in voting against a key element of his Windsor framework" that overhauls the Northern Ireland protocol.

Anger is rising among those in the European Research Group at ministers using a vote on a statutory instrument to implement the Stormont brake" on Wednesday, as a proxy for MPs to have their say on the whole deal.