LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (pix) was accused Wednesday of presiding over a “rogue state” as his government introduced legislation th...
: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was accused Wednesday of presiding over a “rogue state” as his government introduced legislation that intentionally breaches its EU withdrawal treaty in the messy countdown to a full Brexit divorce.
“My job is to uphold the integrity of the UK but also to protect the Northern Ireland peace process and the Good Friday Agreement,“ he added, calling the new bill a “legal safety net” if the EU makes an “irrational interpretation” of post-Brexit arrangements. Blackford gave a withering assessment after Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis had conceded the changes do “break international law in a very specific and limited way”.
The government has struggled to explain why it has only now discovered problems with the EU treaty’s provisions for Northern Ireland, nine months after Johnson triumphantly signed the document and said it set Britain on the path to a sovereign new future. Recalling the high political drama that felled the previous British prime minister, Johnson’s spokesman said the EU treaty was agreed “at pace in the most challenging possible political circumstances”.
Johnson’s spokesman said talks were due to take place later on Wednesday between the prime minister and Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin.
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