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Boris Johnson’s bombshell attack on Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal has heightened hopes among his supporters that the former prime minister is preparing for a comeback.
Allies seized the ex-Prime Minister’s withdrawal from the new deal on Northern Ireland as evidence that ‘the boss man is back’.
Mr Johnson suggested on Thursday that he would defy the Windsor Framework in the next Commons vote on the issue, warning that it would be “very difficult” to support the deal the prime minister has struck with the EU. Back control from Brussels”.
In his first major speech in the UK since leaving office, he argued that Northern Ireland would remain subject to EU law and that the deal would serve as a “drug anchor” for Britain looking to use its freedom to leave.
The speech made it seem unlikely that he would return to Downing Street, even though he said it was “very, very unlikely” that Johnson would do “anything big” in politics. It seemed to rally the existing supporters.
Mr Johnson’s aide and former cabinet minister, Lord Greenhull, said his former boss had once again proved the skeptics who were predicting Mr Johnson’s demise wrong.
‘They said it was all over,’ says Conservative Peer I“Now my boss is back within 24 hours.”
Johnson acknowledged that the long-running post-Brexit trade dispute over Northern Ireland was “all my fault” for agreeing to the original protocol, but admitted he had “mixed feelings” about the deal. , suggested it would at least want that. That would be enough for the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to end its boycott of power-sharing governments in the region.
Mr Johnson also claimed that a similar deal had been proposed when he was prime minister, and that Mr Sunak had yielded to a “generous and unyielding” EU demand.
I The government understands that Mr Johnson is disputing claims that the same deal was made to former Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, and argues that it serves as an anchor for the disagreement. ing.
He again spoke out in support of his controversial Northern Ireland Protocol Bill. The bill, which would have allowed the minister to unilaterally scrap some of his original agreements with the EU, has now been dropped by his Mr Sunak.
Mr Johnson not only attacked the Brexit deal, but also put pressure on the prime minister and Prime Minister Jeremy Hunt ahead of the budget by calling for a reduction in the corporate tax.
The former Conservative leader also warned Mr Sunak not to go ahead with the planned corporate tax hike, urging him instead to “accelerate investment” by slashing it.
The prime minister and prime minister have come under intense pressure from the back venture to announce tax cuts in the budget, and have so far refused.
Sunak was also cautioned not to lose sight of the level-up agenda Mr Johnson put forward when setting his sights on the prime minister’s leadership.
Mr Johnson also tried to downplay the Partygate scandal, defended his tenure record and said the Conservatives had a “very close margin” to Labour in the polls when he was kicked out of 10th place. .
The Conservatives’ average deficit in polls against Labor has risen from 12 points when he resigned to 21 points now.
The former minister suggested that Mr Johnson’s speech showed that only under Mr Johnson’s leadership could the Tories avoid losing the next election to Labor.
they said I: “The choice is neither Rishi nor Boris.
“It’s: Which do you want, Boris or Sturmer?”
Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton Harris, a former ally of Mr Johnson who served as Mr Johnson’s chief of staff, made a lengthy rebuttal to the former prime minister’s claims about the Windsor framework.
Heaton Harris said the deal would allow “free access” for goods made in Northern Ireland to the rest of the UK, as well as “definitive control over many areas from Brussels,” such as Stormont Brake allowing the MLA. It means to take back the rights,” he said. Stop the Brussels changes in the EU rules that apply to the region without consent.
It will also restore tax powers to Northern Ireland and bring drug regulation back to the UK.
“We never said this was a perfect solution, but it would maintain automatic alignment with EU law on Red Lane trade in Northern Irish ports and preserve the full jurisdiction of the international European Court of Justice. It’s a better option than the protocol bill that made it.
Former European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker called Mr Johnson “part of the job” and failed to understand that the Brexit deal with the EU needed to be more precise.
Junker also hailed the Windsor Framework and the EU as “a real breakthrough”, but said it gave European institutions a bigger role than some in Britain had acknowledged.
“The deal addresses the UK’s main concerns, but I think the deal that some of the UK are trying to hide includes parts of the European Union,” he told LBC’s Andrew Marr. Told.
Would Boris Johnson lose his stick if he voted against Rishi Snak’s Brexit deal?
Arj Singh Deputy Political Editor
Boris Johnson’s suggestion that he defies orders to vote for the Brexit deal in Northern Ireland, likely Rishi Sunak, has raised questions about whether he could face repercussions.
The prime minister is prepared for an uprising from die-hard Brexit supporters, but it seems likely that in the coming days and weeks he will impose a three-line flog that will force Conservative MPs to vote on the Windsor framework. is.
Mr Johnson did not say he was against the deal, only that he found it “very difficult” to support it, and appeared to suggest he would abstain.
But the former prime minister’s brutal treatment of the 21 MPs who voted to take control of the House of Commons to prevent a no-deal Brexit in 2019 – banishing them from the Conservative Party – means that Mr Snak has banished him as well. I’m skeptical about whether or not to handle it.
In reality, parliamentarians routinely defy the sanshin whipping and face no action from the party leader.
Twenty-one MPs dismissed by Mr Johnson were dismissed from their party for their unprecedented and extraordinary behavior during a time of heightened Brexit tensions.
As such, the former prime minister is likely to stay by Sunak’s side from the backbench.