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The Independent UK
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Mary-Kate Findon

Watch as Eurosceptic group of Conservatives announce verdict on Sunak’s Brexit deal

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Watch from London as a Eurosceptic group of Conservative Party MPs reveal their verdict on the new Brexit deal with the EU.

The European Research Group's press conference comes the day after Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party said it would vote against it in parliament.

They commissioned a so-called “star chamber” of lawyers to consider the Windsor Framework recently signed with Ursula von der Leyen before deciding how to vote on Wednesday.

Reports suggest that the view will be that the brake is unusable in practice, and the deal does not go far enough.

The Windsor Framework was designed to ease Unionionist fears surrounding the Northern Ireland Protocol, a long-running sticking point in Brexit negotiations.

The Northern Ireland Protocol was part of former prime minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal.

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