No surprise court rules NI Protocol is lawful, says Sinn Féin
BBC NewsAPR 2023
The unity of the Conservative Party is at stake in the quality of the deal Sunak puts forward to the Commons. It would greatly benefit the Prime Minister to find a quick and easy solution to immediate problems to foster closer ties with the EU, but any settlement that fails to solve all of the issues in this complex predicament will doom the Tories to decades of irresolvable friction within their ranks and endless conflict between the UK and the rest of Europe. No deal is better than a bad one.
Although agreement on a new NI Protocol may seem like a leap forward in the Brexit process, even the best version of the deal will not change the fact that generations of Conservative party leaders have driven the UK's relationship with the EU into a dead-end. Johnson took electoral advantage of the situation, but merely fixing the NI Protocol will go almost nowhere to restoring trust between any British government and the EU bloc. The problems facing Sunak are greater than any single deal with the DUP.