Former UK prime ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss are planning to vote against a key part of Rishi Sunak’s new deal for Northern Ireland on Wednesday, saying it left the UK unable to fully “take advantage” of Brexit.
The Windsor framework, unveiled by Sunak and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen last month, aims to ease frictions created by the Northern Ireland protocol, the post-Brexit trading arrangements for the region that have soured EU-UK relations and paralysed the region’s politics.
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