Ministers on Wednesday pushed ahead with a bill to rip up Boris Johnson’s post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland, a move that none of the Tory leadership candidates have challenged.
The bill has poisoned relations with the EU, raising fears of a trade war and the prospect of British scientists being excluded from a €95bn research programme, but it is expected to survive the leadership contest.
Downing Street has said the proposed legislation, which would override parts of the protocol, is “agreed policy” and will continue its passage through the Commons while outgoing prime minister Johnson leads a caretaker government.
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