Theresa May has delivered a stinging rebuke to Boris Johnson’s plan to override parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol ahead of a Commons vote.
The former prime minister told fellow MPs that she could not support the controversial legislation – which she said would be illegal, fail to achieve its aims, and diminish Britain’s standing in the world.
In an excoriating take-down of the plans, she even drew on her own experience as an embattled PM to suggest that European leaders may now be doubtful about her successor Mr Johnson‘s future in Downing Street.
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Her criticism added to the concerns expressed by fellow Tory Andrew Mitchell, a former international development secretary, who said the plan threatened to wreck Britain’s global reputation and prompt a trade war.
The protocol, which governs Northern Ireland‘s post-Brexit trading arrangements, was designed to prevent the return of a hard border with the Republic of…
