Rishi Sunak will be hoping that sorting out the Northern Ireland Protocol will provide him with a boost to his standing in advance of the 25th anniversary of the Belfast - or Good Friday - Agreement that ended the Troubles in 1998.
Since becoming Prime Minister last October, he has had an unenviable time. The Conservative Party received no boost in the polls when he took over from Liz Truss and there is a widespread belief that Boris Johnson is hoping to oust him and make a return to Downing Street.
Whatever the truth, Mr Johnson has become a vocal opponent of the protocol he and his colleagues were responsible for negotiating with the EU in the first place. In doing so, the former prime minister has added fuel to the fire lit by the DUP and fanned by the ultra-Brexiteers of the Tory European Research Group.
