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...The idea of a “dual regulation” framework for Northern Ireland was proposed in former prime minister Boris Johnson’s controversial Northern Ireland protocol bill that was replaced by Sunak’s Windsor framework...
...The UK’s flexible constitution has had its day Making UK governance fit for the future The UK’s constitution is not working British politics will stay sleazy until the Lords is reformed Devolution N...
...Republicans, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson, condemned the budget as “a road map to accelerate America’s decline”....
Polarisation and dark rhetoric prompt some US executives to try to boost the political centre
...Lord Dominic Johnson, the UK’s investment minister, said that sovereign wealth funds from the Gulf states and companies from Japan and the US were among those eyeing opportunities in the region....
...HOLD: Celadon Pharmaceuticals (CEL) The Aim-listed company hopes to bring cannabis-based medicines to the UK market, writes Jennifer Johnson....
...“This September’s investment summit will provide the rocket fuel for Northern Ireland businesses to launch into new frontiers across technology, finance and more,” said Lord Dominic Johnson, UK investment...
...British officials said there were still “hard yards” ahead in the talks, but Sunak hopes to agree a deal and confront Johnson and other Tory Eurosceptics with the result as early as Tuesday....
...The best gift I’ve given recently is a watercolour I did of the poet Linton Kwesi Johnson; when Linton saw it, he said: “Him flatter I.”...
...The other was John Currin, whose titillating “Nice ’n Easy” (1999) had been estimated between $7mn and $10mn. In 2016, this work sold for $12mn....
...Nor should Sunak be swayed by pressure from Johnson not to ditch, as part of any new agreement, a bill that would allow ministers unilaterally to override the protocol....
...Number 10 will hope that Johnson does not criticise the reforms to his original deal....
...Among the Tory MPs likely to cause trouble for Sunak is Johnson, who wants to push ahead with legislation that would unilaterally scrap the protocol....
...Former prime minister Johnson, the joint author of the Northern Ireland protocol, was nowhere to be seen as Sunak announced his deal to a packed House of Commons....
...On Monday Suella Braverman, home secretary, defended UK legislation that would unilaterally scrap the protocol, part of the Brexit treaty signed by Boris Johnson in 2019....
...Former premier Boris Johnson, who agreed the contentious protocol with Brussels, waits in the wings. But the return on that political capital will be worth it, according to his allies....
...Insiders said other retailers had also raised concerns about the costs of the disagreement, but UK officials noted that labelling had been part of the solutions to the protocol proposed by Boris Johnson’...
...The chancellor instead delivered a “pick‘n’mix of in-the-weeds proposals” that fails to improve access for novice savers, according to Bell....
...broadsheets lionised the royalty-baiting, Brexit-bashing rapper from Northampton as the voice of his generation while easily offended tabloids frothed about “sick stunts” when he brandished a model of Boris Johnson...
...But Varadkar’s comments will help to further enhance the mood music around the talks, which had already improved following the departure of Boris Johnson as UK prime minister in September....
...The party, which claimed betrayal when the then prime minister Boris Johnson backtracked on his promise to never put a customs border for goods in the Irish Sea, is already bracing to be left in the lurch...
...Letter in response to this article: Why N Ireland conflict had an international solution / From Michael Cox and others...
...The Northern Ireland protocol, part of Boris Johnson’s 2019 Brexit deal, created a border for intra-UK trade from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, which remains part of the EU’s single market for goods...
...Varadkar, who helped push the protocol over the line in talks in 2019 with Boris Johnson, UK prime minister at the time, said the EU was ready to make “the changes that are necessary”....
...But the atmosphere around the negotiations has changed dramatically since Boris Johnson, who negotiated the so-called Northern Ireland protocol in 2019, left office last September....
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