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A leading Brexiteer has claimed that politicians in Northern Ireland who accept Rishi Sunak's post-Brexit deal with the EU would be like Nazi collaborators.Baroness Kate Hoey made the remarkable claim an attempt by the DUP to block a key part of the revised Northern Ireland Protocol deal was heavily defeated in the Lords.

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The most interesting part of the press conference between the UK prime minister and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, was probably what Rishi Sunak said about the deal including a Stormont brake, which will allow the Northern Ireland assembly to stop new EU single market rules from applying in the region.

After years of red tape and political rows over sausages and sovereignty not to mention the collapse of the power-sharing agreement in Stormont a new deal has finally been struck over the Northern Ireland protocol.Rishi Sunak and the EU Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, have announced their Windsor framework to ease the flow of goods between Northern Ireland and Britain.

The European Research Group (ERG) of hardline Brexiter Conservative MPs has formally rejected Rishi Sunak's revised plan for trading arrangements in Northern Ireland, increasing the potential size of a Tory rebellion against the plan.The ERG, which remains influential, if not to the same extent as during the Brexit negotiations under Theresa May, has said it cannot accept the so-called Windsor framework, unveiled last month by Sunak after talks with Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president.

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Several Stormont leaders described talks with Rishi Sunak on a potential Brexit protocol breakthrough as high on positively but low on detail.The Prime Minister held bilateral meetings with all five of the main Northern Ireland parties at a hotel on the outskirts of Belfast on Friday amid mounting speculation that a UK/EU deal on the Irish trading arrangements is close.

For a Brexit-minded MP, the parallels may seem striking: an electorally embattled prime minister trying to push through a controversial Northern Ireland deal in the face of Tory and Democratic Unionist party (DUP) scepticism.But one thing has changed: this is 2023, not 2019.Theresa May's struggles with Brexit, and her tumbling popularity with voters, led to her being forced out as prime minister by Conservative backbenchers.

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Watch as Rishi Sunak and Ursula von der Leyen hold a press conference in Windsor after reaching an agreement on the Northern Ireland protocol on Monday (27 February).

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has rejected claims that the King was being drawn into political controversy over his meeting with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.