One of the PM’s answers at #PMQs made my jaw drop. It was his response to the DUP leader @J_Donaldson_MP - who said he wanted a change to the Brexit treaty to take Northern Ireland out of the EU’s single market for goods. Rather than confront the DUP leader with the facts,…
which is that there is zero chance of that, Sunak implied he agreed with Donaldson and said reforms to address the “democratic deficit” in Northern Ireland was at the heart of what he and his colleagues are negotiating with Brussels. Really? Surely the PM…
knows that Brussels negotiators have been given no mandate by EU leaders to rip up the NI Protocol. It just isn’t going to happen. So why not just deliver the unwelcome news to the DUP and Tory ERG Brexiters straightaway, and at least look like a determined PM…
on a mission, rather than pretending that irreconcilable positions are capable of being reconciled?
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