Brexit LIVE: Truss sparks EU fury as she stands up to bloc with ‘Trumpian move’
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Ms Truss, Foreign Secretary and chief Brexit negotiator, has been meeting with her EU counterpart, Maros Sefcovic, to renegotiate the flawed Northern Ireland Protocol. There was hope within the bloc that Ms Truss would be less confrontational than her predecessor, Lord Frost, and EU officials praised the “constructive tone”. However, an official tweet fired off from the Foreign Office read: “There are significant problems with the Northern Ireland Protocol, this is putting the Belfast (Good Friday) agreement at risk.” Irish MP Neale Richmond, Fine Gael’s spokesperson on Europe, told Politico: “This is a very disappointing tweet and a pivot from what has been an attempted change in tone towards agreed resolution. One must question the wisdom and timing of such a move that can only be described as Trumpian.”
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Expert warns Boris’ successor must have backed Brexit – ‘Can’t be a Remainer!’
A political expert has warned the Tory Party must elect a Brexiteer as leader once they have toppled Boris Johnson from the top job.
Trevor Kavanagh, the Sun’s former political editor, told GB News: “One of the problems with the candidates who will be running is that some of them are Remainers.
“I don’t think that the Conservative Party can afford to have a Remainer as Prime Minister right now.
“Especially when you hear from people like [Michael] Heseltine and [Lord Andrew] Adonis saying that this is their opportunity to reverse Brexit.
“Whoever it was, say it was Jeremy Hunt, wouldn’t have the chance of holding the party together.”
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