Boris Johnson to vote against Sunak's NI Brexit deal

Boris Johnson has said helium volition ballot against Rishi Sunak's caller Brexit woody for Northern Ireland astatine a Commons statement later.

The erstwhile PM said the woody would either mean Northern Ireland remained tied to the EU, oregon the UK would not beryllium capable to instrumentality vantage of Brexit.

The agreement, announced past month, rewrites the woody Mr Johnson struck with the EU successful 2019.

Other Brexit-backing Tories are besides expected to ballot against the deal.

However, the standard of the rebellion is not yet clear, with a cardinal radical of Eurosceptic Tories undecided connected however they volition vote.

The ballot is connected a cardinal portion of the deal, known arsenic the Stormont brake, that aims to springiness a aboriginal Northern Ireland Assembly a greater accidental connected however EU laws use to Northern Ireland.

It is besides apt to beryllium the lone ballot MPs get connected Mr Sunak's wide Windsor Framework - which helium agreed with European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen past period to regenerate the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill.

Under the Northern Ireland Protocol, inspection and papers checks are carried retired astatine Northern Ireland's ports alternatively of taking spot astatine the Irish borderline - including goods travelling from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) to Northern Ireland.

The checks use adjacent if the goods are owed to stay successful Northern Ireland.

Mr Sunak's caller woody is aimed astatine importantly reducing the fig of checks.

The premier curate said the Windsor Framework was impervious that the UK has "taken backmost control", with his spokesperson adding it was "the champion woody for the radical and businesses of Northern Ireland".

In a statement, Mr Johnson said helium recovered the projected arrangements of the woody "unacceptable" arsenic the champion mode for the UK to instrumentality backmost power would alternatively beryllium to proceed with the NI Protocol Bill - which helium antecedently agreed with the EU and it became portion of planetary instrumentality and came into unit connected 1 January 2021.

"The projected arrangements would mean either that Northern Ireland remained captured by the EU ineligible bid - and was progressively divergent from the remainder of the UK - oregon they would mean that the full of the UK was incapable decently to diverge and instrumentality vantage of Brexit," helium said.

"That is not acceptable. I volition beryllium voting against the projected arrangements today."

Leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said helium volition proceed to enactment with the authorities connected "outstanding issues" - adjacent though Downing Street said determination are nary plans for immoderate important alteration to the deal.

The ballot volition instrumentality spot during Mr Johnson's grounds astatine the Privileges Committee connected Wednesday, wherever helium volition beryllium quizzed by MPs implicit partygate - a time aft helium admitted misleading Parliament by accident.

There volition beryllium a abbreviated interruption truthful MPs tin vote.