Brexit: MPs will vote on key part of Rishi Sunak’s protocol deal within days

Parliament will be asked to vote on ‘Stormont brake’, as Tony Blair backs UK-EU agreement

MPs will get a vote on a key part of Rishi Sunak’s new post-Brexit deal for Northern Ireland in parliament next week.

They will be asked to approve a statutory instrument relating to the so-called “Stormont brake” section of the deal on Wednesday, Commons leader Penny Mordaunt announced.

It represents the first Commons test for the PM’s Windsor Framework deal with the EU to resolved the Northern Ireland Protocol row.