LONDON — Rishi Sunak began an outreach effort to win support from Conservative rebels for a post-Brexit deal on Northern Ireland after weeks of talks with the European Union.
The U.K. prime minister held one-on-one meetings with Tory members of Parliament on Monday afternoon in which he explained the outline of a prospective agreement with the bloc, people familiar with the conversations said. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly is set to address Tory rank-and-file MPs on Tuesday to brief them on the latest negotiations, another person familiar said.
Sunak is trying to draw a line under an issue that’s poisoned relations with the EU since Britain left the bloc three years ago: the nature of Northern Ireland’s trading arrangements with Great Britain, after the region was allowed to remain in the bloc’s single market.
