Northern Ireland
Deirdre Heenan: If he gives in to the Brexit zealots, Sunak will be prime minister in name only
It is crunch time for Rishi Sunak, who cannot sit on the fence when it comes to the Northern Ireland protocol for much longer
Northern Ireland continues to be Brexit’s Gordian Knot, a seemingly intractable conundrum that Rishi Sunak, the British prime minister, must now solve. It has exposed the stupidity, deceit, dishonesty and fantasy at the heart of the entire Brexit project.
For what it’s worth, many – including John Major, the former British prime minister – warned that the proposed exit from the EU would upset the delicate constitutional arrangements in the North. The vandals ploughed on ...