Plans to roll back the Northern Ireland Protocol could be threatened by Tory rebels, ministers are claiming, amid a fresh row over whether the plan will breach international law.
Boris Johnson is meeting ministers tonight to thrash out key parts of the legislation due to be published next week giving the government powers to scrap sections of the Brexit deal involving Northern Ireland.
This is expected to trigger a massive fight with the European Union.
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This comes as Sky News is told that the First Treasury Counsel, the government’s independent barrister on nationally important legal issues, has not been consulted on the question of whether the plans to overhaul the Northern Ireland Protocol will break international law.
Sir James Eadie was not asked to give his opinion on this key point of the plans.
He is nevertheless understood to have indicated he believes it will be very hard for the UK to…
