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.@BorisJohnson has raised concerns about @RishiSunak’s new Brexit deal for Northern Ireland and said he will find it “very difficult” to vote for it.

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In a Westminster speech, the former prime minister said:
‘I’m going to find it very difficult to vote for something like this myself, because I believed we should’ve done something very different. No matter how much plaster came off the ceiling in Brussels.

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I hope that it will work and I also hope that if it doesn’t work we will have the guts to employ that (Northern Ireland Protocol) Bill again, because I have no doubt at all that that is what brought the EU to negotiate seriously.’
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.@BorisJohnson raised numerous concerns about the Windsor agreement, adding:

‘I’m conscious I’m not going to be thanked for saying this, but I think it is my job to do so: we must be clear about what is really going on here.’

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‘This is not about the UK taking back control, and although there are easements this is really a version of the solution that was being offered last year to Liz Truss when she was foreign secretary…’

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‘This is the EU graciously unbending to allow us to do what we want to do in our own country, not by our laws but by theirs.’
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Well said @BorisJohnson 👏