PM pressed to freeze £20bn EU Danegeld over N Ireland deal Christopher Hope © Peter Morrison - WPA Pool British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is shown the 3D printing at by Sophie McIlveen a Medical Visualisation Engineer at Axial 3D during a visit to their offices on March 12 - Peter Morrison - WPA Pool
Boris Johnson has been told by eurosceptic MPs he should consider halting Brexit bill payments to the European Union until the difficulties with the Northern Ireland protocol have been resolved.
Last week the Prime Minister admitted on a visit to the Province that the Northern Ireland Protocol, which was intended to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland, was not working as he had expected.
Eurosceptic Tory MPs urge Boris Johnson to halt Brexit bill payments until N Ireland protocol resolved
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Brexiteers have long accused civil servants of hampering the UK’s exit from the EU. But new interviews with leading Tory ministers and advisers paint a very different picture – one in which, despite the best efforts of officials, Tory leaders’ miscalculations and in-fighting stymie progress. Adam Branson reports
Ever since 2016, Brexit-supporting politicians and newspapers have accused civil servants of trying to slow or block the implementation of Brexit. But in a recent interview, a key member of former prime minister Theresa May’s cabinet says the real problem lay elsewhere: in Tory MPs’ inability to agree between themselves on the kind of Brexit they wanted to deliver.