SIR John Redwood was one of 22 Conservative MPs who voted against Rishi Sunak’s new post-Brexit deal for Northern Ireland.
The Prime Minister resisted a revolt from his own party on Wednesday, March 22, which featured former Tory leaders Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Iain Duncan Smith, to win the House of Commons vote by 515 to 29.
Eight MPs from Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist party also voted against the proposed Windsor framework.
MPs voted on a specific element of the deal, the Stormont brake, which gives members of Northern Ireland’s assembly the power to lodge objections to new EU rules.
Ahead of the vote, Sir Redwood tweeted: “MPs need to tell the government the deal gives the EU too much power creating troubles in the future.
“The government has failed to tell us which EU laws will apply in Northern Ireland, why the EU keeps a role in our tax and state aids policy and what the forms and controls on GB/NI trade look like. Why?
“It is difficult to see when or how the Stormont brake would work. Better to take control of law making for our country instead of having some mechanism to reject the odd EU imposed law.”
