Boris Johnson, Brexit and the Northern Ireland Protocol
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2022 5:26 am
Boris Johnson, Brexit and the Northern Ireland Protocol
Boris Johnson rose to the highest ranks of UK politics on the back of Brexit.
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He was the face of the campaign group Vote Leave and in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum the new prime minister Theresa May made him foreign secretary.
Within three years, he had deposed her for taking an insufficiently hard line on Brexit.
He then fought and won an election on the promise that he would "get Brexit done".
He did deliver a Brexit deal with the EU but the treatment of Northern Ireland remains unfinished business, which has poisoned several sets of political relationships.
How did Mr Johnson's position on Northern Ireland and Brexit evolve?
November 2018: The DUP conference
Boris Johnson was the star attraction at the DUP party conference in Belfast with his speech cheered to the rafters.
At this time the Conservative government required DUP support to wield power, although that relationship was increasingly tense.
Two weeks before the DUP conference, then-prime minister Theresa May had agreed a draft withdrawal agreement with the EU.
It included an arrangement for Northern Ireland known as "the backstop" - it would mean that in the absence of some other solution to maintain an open Irish border, Northern Ireland would continue to follow EU rules on goods and customs.
October 2019: Boris meets Leo
Mr Johnson became Conservative leader and prime minister in July 2019 and by August he took his opening shot at the EU.
In a terse letter to European Council President Donald Tusk, the prime minister said the backstop risked undermining the Northern Ireland peace process, was unviable and anti-democratic.
He called for "flexible and creative solutions" and "alternative arrangements" - based on technology - to avoid a hard border.
Boris Johnson rose to the highest ranks of UK politics on the back of Brexit.
Due to the bonus giveaway of the game. เล่นสล็อต are based on a variety of gameplay, whether it's rotating all the same symbols.
He was the face of the campaign group Vote Leave and in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum the new prime minister Theresa May made him foreign secretary.
Within three years, he had deposed her for taking an insufficiently hard line on Brexit.
He then fought and won an election on the promise that he would "get Brexit done".
He did deliver a Brexit deal with the EU but the treatment of Northern Ireland remains unfinished business, which has poisoned several sets of political relationships.
How did Mr Johnson's position on Northern Ireland and Brexit evolve?
November 2018: The DUP conference
Boris Johnson was the star attraction at the DUP party conference in Belfast with his speech cheered to the rafters.
At this time the Conservative government required DUP support to wield power, although that relationship was increasingly tense.
Two weeks before the DUP conference, then-prime minister Theresa May had agreed a draft withdrawal agreement with the EU.
It included an arrangement for Northern Ireland known as "the backstop" - it would mean that in the absence of some other solution to maintain an open Irish border, Northern Ireland would continue to follow EU rules on goods and customs.
October 2019: Boris meets Leo
Mr Johnson became Conservative leader and prime minister in July 2019 and by August he took his opening shot at the EU.
In a terse letter to European Council President Donald Tusk, the prime minister said the backstop risked undermining the Northern Ireland peace process, was unviable and anti-democratic.
He called for "flexible and creative solutions" and "alternative arrangements" - based on technology - to avoid a hard border.