Rishi Sunak is battling to reach a new deal on post-Brexit trade in Northern Ireland with the EU, while trying to appease unionists, nationalists, and everyone in-between.
But, just as Westminster had thought Boris Johnson was out of the picture, sources tell Sky News he thinks it would be a “great mistake drop the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill”, controversial legislation which allows UK ministers to rip up parts of the protocol and ignore EU rules.
On this episode, Trevor Phillips is joined by The Scotsman’s Westminster correspondent Alexander Brown to analyse interviews with Leader of House Penny Mordaunt and Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.
We also review the conversations with former Northern Ireland Secretary under Tony Blair, Lord Peter Mandelson, and the leader of Northern Ireland’s Alliance Party, Naomi Long.
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