LONDON — Boris Johnson criticised Rishi Sunak's new post-Brexit deal with the European Union for Northern Ireland on Thursday (March 2), saying the prime minister had allowed the bloc to retain too much influence in the UK. Sunak struck a new deal on Monday to ease trade restrictions in the British-run province, partially unwinding an earlier arrangement by Johnson that...
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures during the Global Soft Power Summit at the QEII center in London, Britain, March 2, 2023.LONDON — Boris Johnson criticised Rishi Sunak's new post-Brexit deal with the European Union for Northern Ireland on Thursday , saying the prime minister had allowed the bloc to retain too much influence in the UK.
He said he would understand if politicians in the province choose to back the new deal in an effort to resume the region's power-sharing assembly. "We must be clear about what is really going on here. This is not about the UK taking back control... This is the EU graciously unbending to allow us to do what we want in our own country. Not by our laws, but by theirs."
Sterling fell against the US dollar and euro after Johnson's comments, extending losses from earlier in the day.Sunak had hailed the agreement as historic, one that enables Britain to move on from the Brexit rows of recent years and reset its relationship both with the EU and the US after US President Joe Biden voiced concern about the political strains developing in Northern Ireland.
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