After seven years, five PMs and countless false dawns, Rishi Sunak has hailed a “decisive breakthrough” that could finally mark the end of Brexit.
Alongside EU chief Ursula von der Leyen, he unveiled his solution to the bitter trade impasse sparked by Boris Johnson’s Northern Ireland Protocol deal in 2020.
But it is far from certain whether the PM could win over the Democratic Unionist Party and his own Brexit extremist MPs.