“It passed very solidly with Conservative votes and that is because it is a good deal for people, for families, for businesses in Northern Ireland.'
Rishi Sunak has seen off a backbench revolt by Tory hardliners opposed to his new deal with Brussels on post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland.
“It passed very solidly with Conservative votes and that is because it is a good deal for people, for families, for businesses in Northern Ireland. Get the latest politics news and analysis in your inbox Want the biggest political stories sent straight to you? “Until that is resolved, I can’t commit to the Government that we will restore the political institutions – it’s what I want to do, but we need to get this right,” he said.
The group said that if the 22 Tories who voted against the brake were combined with just half the 48 who did not vote, it would have have been enough to overturn the Government’s working majority of 66.
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