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Rishi Sunak and Ursula von der Leyen expected to agree new Northern Ireland Brexit deal – UK politics live

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As my colleague Lisa O’Carroll reports, the former Northern Ireland secretary Theresa Villiers, a leader Brexiter, said this morning it is “crucial parliament has a vote” on the much-anticipated deal.

Good morning. Rishi Sunak is today unveiling his own Brexit deal – an agreement with the EU on changes to the Northern Ireland protocol. Theresa May lost office because she could not get her own Brexit deal accepted by her party, or parliament. Sunak is in a much stronger position than she was (the issue is more marginal, the Tory Brexiters are less potent, most MPs just want to move on, and Sunak has Labour on his side) but it is still, as Peter Walker reports in his overnight summary, a perilous moment for him.

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