Boris Johnson is facing a growing rebellion among senior Conservatives over his controversial Internal Market Bill - while former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Sir John Major urged MPs to reject it, saying it risked putting the Irish peace process, trade negotiations and the UK's integrity at peril.
Ex-Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Sir John Major have urged MPs to reject the "shameful" attempt to override parts of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.
Boris Johnson accused of having 'no negotiating strategy' after reiterating Brexit demand to scrap backstop
20/08/2019
Just hours before letter to Donald Tusk, one EU leader insisted withdrawal agreement ‘cannot be reopened’.
Boris Johnson admits no-deal Brexit will hurt UK while dodging journalists' questions during rambling campaign launch
12/06/2019
Boris Johnson has renewed his vow to take Britain out of the EU with or without a deal on 31 October, but admitted that withdrawal without an agreement will hurt the UK in the short term.
Boris Johnson bid to tear up Northern Ireland deal endangers peace, US congressmen warn [1 min]
15/06/2022
Boris Johnson’s plans to tear up post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland have come under fierce attack from Washington, with senior congressmen on both sides of the US political divide warning the “irresponsible” move is a threat to peace in the province.
Boris Johnson never understood what his Withdrawal Agreement with the EU really meant, his former chief adviser has said.
Boris Johnson has no intention of renegotiating the withdrawal agreement and a no-deal Brexit is his “central scenario”, European diplomats have been told, amid hardening evidence in Westminster that the government is expecting to crash out of the EU.
Ursula von der Leyen hits out at Britain over plans to breach agreement on Northern Ireland.
Prime minister wants to overwrite parts of treaty he agreed at beginning of the year.
Johnson and prominent members of his ruling Conservative Party have publicly called for the scrapping or radical overhaul of the Northern Ireland Protocol.
‘How can we reproach other countries if their behaviour becomes reprehensible when we ourselves have such scant regard for the treaties we sign up to’, former Tory leader says
Prime Minister will not abide by political declaration following new election mandate.
Move sparks fears PM will use European security as Brexit bargaining chip
Boris Johnson has told Tory MPs he will not compromise on his plan to break international law over Brexit despite signs of a significant backbench rebellion, sources told HuffPost UK.
Democratic candidate had warned trade deal was dependent on respecting EU Brexit deal.
PM risks major confrontation with Joe Biden by persevering with internal market bill.
Boris Johnson's border solutions derided
25/06/2019
TORY leadership contender Boris Johnson's plans for solving the vexed issue of the post-Brexit Irish border have been dismissed as "fantasy".
Boris Johnson's Brexit bill one step away from being finalised after completing passage through parliament
22/01/2020
Hard-fought EU withdrawal legislation now needs only Royal Assent to become law, clearing path for Brexit on 31 January.
Peers expected to attempt to amend bill as it passes through Lords.
Boris Johnson’s claims about the prospects of rewriting the Brexit deal have been compared by the European parliament’s Brexit coordinator to the “false promises, pseudo-patriotism and foreigner-bashing” he is said to have used to win the EU referendum.
According to our study, the deal now being discussed would reduce per capita GDP by 6.4%, as opposed to 4.9%
Critics are in U.K. prime minister’s own Conservative party. / Top government lawyer quits as Brexit spooks markets again.
Boris Johnson’s next Tory rebellion could be on Brexit as Eurosceptic MPs wake up to the true nature of withdrawal agreement
05/08/2020
Senior Brexiteers endorsed the Prime Minister’s deal but some have now turned against it and want to see it replaced.
Boris Johnson’s ‘implementation period’ and five other Tory leadership Brexit plans already rejected or doomed to fail
25/06/2019
What are the Brexit proposals put forward - and why will they probably be rejected?
Brexit backstop has not been rewritten or 'undermined' by new agreement, says Ireland PM Varadkar
12/03/2019
'It does not reopen the withdrawal agreement or undermine the backstop or its application' says Leo Varadkar