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Re: Britain outside the EU
Brexit deal: Rishi Sunak ‘has cabinet backing’ for protocol agreement — follow latest
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2...03057f71553dcd
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Ministers are unlikely to resign over Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal after a series of extensive briefings by No 10 and ministers over the weekend, The Times has been told.
Steve Baker, a Northern Ireland minister, was given a detailed briefing on the contents of the agreement in Downing Street on Sunday. He is expected to be given advance sight of the text of the deal today.
He is said to accept that significant concessions have been made and believe that the deal could improve the lives of people living in Northern Ireland. Other ministers and senior Tory eurosceptics were briefed by Dominic Raab, the deputy prime minister, over the weekend...
… One senior member of the European Research Group of eurosceptic Tory MPs said that while they were impressed with the apparent concessions secured by Sunak, they still may decide not to back the deal.
They said that based on what they had heard they would “love” to back the deal but would move in “lock-step” with the DUP. They said that the government’s handling of the DUP — keeping them out of negotiations until a deal had been secured — had been “appalling” and led to significant levels of mistrust.
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@garius on Twitter summed it up, imho
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Huge, huge gamble though.
For him (Sunak) to come out of this with a POLITICAL win, he's essentially dependent on Johnson not being an utter sociopath, the ERG being rational actors and the DUP being fine serving under a Catholic.
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Last edited by Hugh; 27-02-2023 at 13:51.
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