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brooklynite

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Sun Sep 13, 2020, 09:51 AM Sep 2020

Blair and Major blast Johnson's Brexit deal violation plan

Source: Politico

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under fire from two of his predecessors over his plan to renege on parts of his Brexit Withdrawal Agreement with the EU.

Tony Blair, the former Labour leader, and John Major, of Johnson's own Conservatives, published a joint op-ed attacking the decision in the Sunday Times.

Johnson's new Brexit plans break with parts of the deal related to Northern Ireland, violating international law in a “very specific and limited way,” according to a government minister.

The government has justified its Internal Markets Bill as essential to ensuring unfettered trade between the four nations of the U.K. But the plans have sparked outrage from the European Union.


Read more: https://www.politico.eu/article/boris-johnson-brexit-plan-blasted-by-tony-blair-john-major/

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Blair and Major blast Johnson's Brexit deal violation plan (Original Post) brooklynite Sep 2020 OP
Well anyone with any common sense saw this train coming.............. turbinetree Sep 2020 #1
Boris Johnson,,, Proximate Centurion Sep 2020 #2

turbinetree

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1. Well anyone with any common sense saw this train coming..............
Sun Sep 13, 2020, 10:09 AM
Sep 2020

sounds like him the orange hair confection are on the same page.............they like to LIE and renege next up out of NATO.................

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