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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is looking to tout the new post-Brexit deal with the European Union over trade rules in Northern Ireland to the region and to his lawmakers this week. Sunak hopes the new deal would ease trade rules and break the political deadlock in the province.
On Tuesday, Sunak visited Northern Ireland and then touted the new deal with the EU to his lawmakers that would ease the post-Brexit trade with the region. Sunak is looking to secure the support of Northern Ireland and lawmakers in the hopes of resetting the United Kingdom’s relations with the bloc as well as the United States without drawing the ire of lawmakers under Sunak’s governing Conservative Party and in Belfast who are pro-Brexit.
The deal would hopefully resolve tensions between the UK and the EU over the Northern Ireland Protocol, which was arranged when the UK left the bloc, and to avoid having a hard border with EU member Ireland. Under the protocol, the region would be in the EU’s single market for goods. This raised concerns among pro-British unionists in the region, who felt that the protocol would separate the region from the rest of the UK.
Sunak said the new agreement, now called the Windsor Framework, would bolster the union and scrap out the rules that affected imported goods as well as give lawmakers on the ground more input over the rules and regulations from the EU.
However, whether or not the deal would be successful would depend on whether or not the pro-British Democratic Unionist Party supports the new arrangement that could end its boycott of the region’s power-sharing government. The power-sharing government was an integral part of the 1998 peace deal that ended decades of political violence in Northern Ireland.
On the same day, the Times reported that Sunak’s predecessor, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, will not oppose Sunak’s deal with the EU on trade rules for Northern Ireland, citing allies who are close to Johnson. According to an ally, Johnson will not oppose the deal because “there is no rebellion.”
Another ally of Johnson’s said the former prime minister is expected not to be in attendance during votes instead of opposing Sunak’s deal.
