The Windsor Framework suits its authors
Why did the EU end up giving the UK quite a lot of what it wanted – and enough for self-styled Brexit hardman Steve Baker, a Northern Ireland minister, to proclaim the deal a ‘fantastic result’? Von der Leyen was able to lead the EU’s governments towards compromise because Sunak had succeeded in restoring an element of trust with European leaders. His two predecessors were not trusted: Johnson and Liz Truss promoted the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill which would allow the UK to tear up much of the Protocol. Many Conservatives are unaware how angry that bill made the EU: legislating to override a recently signed international treaty was seen, at best, as frivolous. If Sunak had persisted with the Bill there would have been no deal, but he parked it in the House of Lords and it will now be forgotten.
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