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Rishi Sunak stands up to the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) over their power-sharing boycott in Northern Ireland this week despite plans to vote against his ‘unhelpful’ Brexit deal I am prepared. I understand.
DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said Monday that the party will oppose the Windsor Framework in the House of Commons on Wednesday, calling for “clarification, change and reworking.”
However, Downing Street made it clear that the Prime Minister had “no plans” to change the deal.
The No 10 also believes that the idea of restoring power-sharing is not dead as the party has previously watered down its hardline stance, and may therefore drop its boycott on post-Brexit terms of trade.
But a senior DUP MP said it was “not likely” that the party would end its refusal to restore Northern Ireland’s political system without major changes to the deal, adding: “The door is firmly closed and Locked and blocked,” he added.
“We have seven tests that must be met, and we have never deviated from that promise,” the lawmaker added.
Northern Ireland’s largest Unionist opposition threatens to escalate the scale of the Conservative lawmakers’ uprising expected in Wednesday’s vote, but one opposition whip says only about 20 will reject the deal. thinking.
But that number could rise after Tory’s and pro-Brexit European Research Group (ERG) announced a legal ruling on the framework on Tuesday, but not as Sir Kiel Sturmer pledged support for Labor. An agreement is reached.
The government’s decision to allocate only 90 minutes for parliamentarians to discuss the deal and to limit voting on legislation enacting the ‘Stormont brake’ element of the deal risks further escalating tensions.
An official spokesman for the prime minister said voting for the brake was “the right approach” because it would allow parliamentarians “to have a say on the most important elements of the framework”.
Snack gives Northern Ireland trade unionists effective ‘veto power’ over changes to EU law applying to the region under Britain’s post-Brexit status to remain in the single European market for goods As, tried to market the brakes, but the market needed to maintain an invisible border with the Republic of Ireland within the UK.
But as the DUP’s position hardened over the course of Monday, after legislation confirmed that the UK government, not Northern Ireland’s MLA, would have the final say in whether EU law applies to the region. Looked.
The law allows UK ministers to seek to apply Stormont’s veto in “exceptional circumstances” or if they conclude that Brussels regulations do not create a regulatory boundary between Northern Ireland and mainland Britain. It was revealed that the attempt could be overturned.
Sammy Wilson, DUP MP and Whip Chief of Staff, said this made the brakes “useless” and called Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton Harris “an opposition to EU legislation by the (Northern Ireland) parliament”. misleading his claim that the government has an obligation to respond to member”.
“The Windsor Framework has been oversold for weeks, and now, as its details are being investigated and publicly revealed, the most outrageous claims are being exposed,” he said. said after seeing
Sir Geoffrey, meanwhile, expressed concern that the brake would not allow Northern Ireland to override existing EU legislation already in force within the state, although the government said this would be the original post-Brexit rule. claims to be subject to a consent vote in Congress in 2024. Local terms of trade.
Meanwhile, Sunak’s spokesman denied Wilson’s allegations and told reporters:
“The UK government has a clear veto that allows the rule to be permanently waived.”