The new agreement is expected to ease physical checks on goods flowing from Britain to Northern Ireland, and give the province's lawmakers a say over the EU rules it has to implement under the complicated terms of Britain's exit from the bloc.
London could also set some tax and state aid rules.
Its success could hinge on whether it convinces the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to end its boycott of Northern Ireland's power-sharing arrangements. These were central to a 1998 peace deal which mostly ended three decades of sectarian violence in the British province.
2024 is closing in, Sunak can do nothing to stop this :data-laughing:
Creating a big backdoor through which to relieve the tension of Brexit? Probably the smartest thing a Tory has done in the last decade.
Irish reunification gonna happen because the local british nationalists don't actually wanna be the privileged special region that connects Britain to the rest of the continent because, apparently, that's a bad thing within a capitalist framework?
