{"id":27638,"date":"2023-02-20T12:23:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T12:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/02\/20\/starmer-on-labour-support-for-northern-ireland-protocol-deal\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T12:23:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T12:23:58","slug":"starmer-on-labour-support-for-northern-ireland-protocol-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=27638","title":{"rendered":"Starmer on Labour support for Northern Ireland Protocol deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Labour is to put &#8220;party politics to one side&#8221; and back the government over a deal on Northern Ireland, its leader has said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Sir Keir Starmer said that meant the prime minister would not have to rely on Conservative backbenchers, as he questioned whether Rishi Sunak was &#8220;strong enough&#8221; to get his MPs to back any deal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The UK and the EU have been in talks for more than a year to try to resolve issues with the Northern Ireland protocol, which governs post-Brexit trade rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-northern-ireland-64703436\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Brexit: No deal on NI Protocol this week, predicts DUP MP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-64706280?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Labour is to put &#8220;party politics to one side&#8221; and back the government over a deal on Northern Ireland, its leader has said. Sir Keir Starmer said that meant &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}