With #johnsonthetraitor & the #Tory right threatening to disrupt the #NIprotocol deal, #Starmer told the Observer he was taking the extraordinary step of offering his party’s support in any parliamentary vote on the agreement, enabling #Sunak to stop “scrambling around to appease an intransigent rump of his own backbenchers..source close to Johnson said it was his view that “it would be a great mistake to drop the #NIprotocolBill ”. #ergcoup #ToryOCG
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/18/boris-johnson-threatens-rishi-sunaks-bid-to-end-deadlock-over-brexit