Mr Sunak addressed Tory backbenchers at the 1922 Committee in the Commons after a visit to Northern Ireland in an attempt to shore up support for the Windsor Agreement
Rishi Sunak has told Tory MPs to give the DUP “time and space” to consider his Brexit deal as they were warned it is the best offer they will get.
He was understood to have told Conservative colleagues he had “spent a lot of time” with DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, whose party walked out of Stormont in protest at Boris Johnson’s Northern Ireland Protocol. But it still includes what Mr Sunak argues is a “small and limited” role for the European Court of Justice.
Speaking to reporters after the 1922 meeting, Northern Ireland Office minister Steve Baker said: “I cannot see how we will get better than this… this is the deal.” “I recognise this is a very difficult time for the DUP, they’ve got hard choices to make but I believe in the end they will agree with me that this is a good deal for the union in all the circumstances.”
He said the PM takes a “steady and sensible pace” when asked if he fears Mr Sunak holding a vote before the group’s legal analysis is published.
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