Ex-PM says controversial bill is best way forward as lawyers advising Tory Eurosceptics submit fresh proposal
Boris Johnson has hinted he may not support a proposed deal over theprotocol from Rishi Sunak, heaping pressure on the prime minister to revive a controversial bill that would unilaterally override parts of the Brexit treaty.
In an interview with Sky News, Johnson said it was “important that we wait to see what there may be” in Sunak’s deal. But the former prime minister went on to say: “I think the best way forward, as I said when I was running the government, is the Northern Ireland bill, which, you know, cleared the Commons very comfortably, I think unamended, when I was in office only a few months ago. So I think that’s the best way forwards.”Northern IrelandJohnson said: “It’s a very good bill.
The proposals to Sunak from Eurosceptics’ legal advisers suggested a system that would mean any businesses exporting to the EU that breached European regulations would be prosecuted in British courts rather than the European court of justice. The Democratic Unionist party told the BBC on Wednesday night: “Sir Jeffrey [Donaldson, the DUP leader] did not approve this document but was advised it was being sent.”
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