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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament. Picture date: Wednesday March 22, 2023.
RISHI SUNAK’S post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland were backed by MPs today, but two ex-PMs and other anti-EU hard-liners rejected it, exposing ongoing divisions in the Tory Party.
Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and the European Research Group (ERG) of Tory MPs voted against the so-called Stormont brake — a key element of the Windsor Framework signed by Downing Street and Brussels last month.
But it passed by 515 votes to 29, with the backing of other Tories, Labour and the SNP.
Some thinkers and authors on the right are openly discussing the possibility that the historically successful party of the British ruling class may be exhausted
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE