Northern Ireland protocol

The vote on the so-called “Stormont brake” – which hands Northern Irish lawmakers an effective veto over new European Union rules being implemented in the UK province – won the backing of 515 MPs, with just 29 opposed.

Sunak wins vote on key part of post-Brexit deal with EU

UK lawmakers endorsed on Wednesday (Mar 22) a crucial part of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s post-Brexit deal with the EU to overhaul Northern Irish trade rules, despite a rebellion by ex-leader Boris J...

Democratic Unionist Party leader Jeffrey Donaldson says the proposed "Stormont brake" does not deal with the "fundamental issue, which is the imposition" of European Union law by the Northern Ireland Protocol.

International

Northern Ireland’s DUP lawmakers to vote against new Brexit deal

NORTHERN Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Jeffrey Donaldson on Monday (Mar 20) said that his party’s members of the British parliament would vote against a central element of the gover...

Johnson conceded that the prevailing wind was behind Sunak. “It is clear that this is where people are now,” he told the audience in London. “People want to move on. I get that.”

International

Boris Johnson says voting for new Brexit deal will be hard

Boris Johnson, who led the UK out of the European Union and still remains popular within the governing party, said he will struggle to support a revised Brexit deal seen as key to mending ties with th...

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (left) and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at a press conference after securing the deal, which will regulate trade in Northern Ireland.

International

UK and EU strike deal on Northern Ireland protocol

BORIS Johnson’s victory in the 2019 race to become prime minister of the United Kingdom was attributed in part to his campaign slogan: “Get Brexit done”. More than three years later, one of his succes...

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (L) and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen hold a joint press conference following their meeting at the Fairmont Hotel in Windsor, west of London, on Feb 27, 2023.

Opinion & Features

Irish breakthrough, but ‘Brex-eternity’ continues

UK PRIME Minister Rishi Sunak struck a deal over the Northern Ireland protocol on Monday (Feb 27) with the European Union. Yet even if the agreement is approved by legislators, it will not end the UK-...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the deal on Monday after a meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

International

UK PM Sunak strikes deal with EU over Northern Ireland

Britain and the European Union announced a new deal for post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland on Monday (Feb 27) in a bid to end a row that has overshadowed their ties since Brexit.

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