Former UK prime minister said he would find it ‘very difficult’ to support the Windsor agreement despite claiming some credit for the new pact being brokered
“This is the EU graciously unbending to allow us to do what we want to do in our own country, not by our laws, but by theirs.”
He also challenged Mr Sunak to cut corporation tax to “Irish levels or lower”, arguing there is “no point in just emulating the high tax high spend low growth European model”. Mr Sunak scrapped the Bill after brokering the new deal, but Mr Johnson urged him to have the “guts” to bring it back if the agreement does not succeed.
During the speech for the Brand Finance consultancy, Mr Johnson argued Northern Ireland would remain under EU law, with Brussels still making regulations, but “with what they hope will be lighter bureaucracy” under Mr Sunak’s deal.
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