PM Rishi Sunak hasn’t yet won over the Tory Brexiteers and Northern Irish unionists, but his new deal with Brussels has located the zone of compromise.
| Britain and the European Union look poised to break a four-year Brexit deadlock over Northern Ireland, in what both sides hailed as “a new chapter” in their previously fraught relationship.
“The United Kingdom and the European Union may have had our differences in the past, but we are allies, trading partners, and friends. ... This is the beginning of a new chapter in our relationship,” Mr Sunak told reporters at Windsor Castle. Mr Sunak has promised a parliamentary vote on the deal. He will likely win this with Labour support, but he will want to avoid an overly large backbench rebellion from his own Conservative side.
Mr Sunak sought to exert subtle pressure on the DUP, saying that although “politics matters”, all parties should focus on the Windsor Framework’s benefits for Northern Ireland’s “communities, families and businesses”.Ms von der Leyen also called the deal “a new chapter” for UK-EU relations, ending the years of standoff and fruitless negotiations with Mr Johson and, briefly, his successor Liz Truss.
There will be EU maritime border posts, but only for red-lane goods headed from Britain onwards to Ireland. There will be no border posts on the 500-kilometre frontier between Ireland and Northern Ireland.The system will function through data-sharing between British and EU customs agencies, and the use of labels that will identify goods as bound for Northern Ireland or the European Union.
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