A striking moment from the Q&A was Rishi Sunak's enthusiastic celebration of Northern Ireland having access to both UK markets and the EU, which he described as"an unbelievably special position".
But today Mr Sunak has been waxing lyrical about the"prize" enjoyed by Northern Ireland under the framework and"the world's most exciting economic zone". The PM's spokesman said the British people made their decision in 2016 in the Brexit referendum but Northern Ireland needed access to both markets because of its unique situation.
Boris Johnson's"oven ready" Brexit deal took the UK out of the single market but kept Northern Ireland closely aligned to it in order to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland. The agreement does mean Northern Ireland must continue following Brussels' trade rules, but the PM has negotiated a 'Stormont brake' which allows the devolved government to block any EU law changes from coming into force in the region.
DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said"there remain key issues of concern" regarding the new deal despite"significant progress" made.
Word shuffling. Where is fishing. Agriculture and the EU court of Justice. Hope they don’t accept it. We need to be right out.
Can the rest of us in the UK have it also?
Tackle inflation and the cost of living problem first you...
Why deny the rest of the UK access to the single markets.
So does our PM RishiSunak, have the best interests of the rest of the UK in mind by denying the rest of the UK of an 'unbelievably special position' and the 'world's most exciting economic zone'? NorthernIreland BrexitDisaster BrexitLies BrexitDeal
The Brexitory Cult are utterly demented.
So the UK voted to leave but the European courts will still have a say on Northern Ireland? Well that’s not leaving is it, the whole thing has been a disaster
There are no words.
When do you think mainstream media will call out this story for what it is?
Sure didn't all the UK enjoy that advantageous trading position and now only NI does, great deal brexit was in all fairness. Hold another referendum now and you see the truth.
I wonder what Scotland thinks of this.
Which of our main political parties might be bold enough to include the UK rejoining the single market in their forthcoming General Election manifestos ?
Does this give NI an advantage within the UK as other home nations don’t have this
The question is, what will it do for the UK ?
Couldn't make it up !!
How about the rest of Britain?
He can’t be that backward, surely?
We need £1 billion
Take stuff away....give a little bit back and claim you are the greater good. Tory guff, lies and corruption!
So businesses will leave GB and move to NI 🤔
Thanks brexiters
So he voted every step of the way to get U.K. including N.Ireland out of the EU and now has the audacity to say that NI are now in a privileged position to be both in the U.K. and EU market. He helped create the mess and then takes credit for clearing up that same mess
Hey RishiSunak why don’t you do a deal for the rest of the UK, so that we can all be in an ‘unbelievably special position’!?!
ToxicTories BrexitLies
The whole UK could be in that exciting zone, but oh well…
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Why did ye leave so 😕
Like we used to be. 😂😂🤡🤡
So the UK leaving Europe, whether we liked it or not, was 'taking back control'. But Northern Ireland having access to Europe places it in an 'unbelievably special position'. Interesting. Dishonest politicians will always come unstuck trying to defend the indefensible. 😥
Sunak is a tory so a liar
The EU have played Rishi Sunak, and deliberately put the Tories in a place where they are celebrating the benefits of access to EU, plus making Boris look like a knob and pulling the Tories towards the centre. 😂😂😂
Mr Sunak you do realize you could put all the the UK in an “unbelievably special position” - it’s called brenter . Yes that’s right Mr Sunak BRITAIN RE-ENTER
Just like the entire UK was a few short yet infinite years ago. Muppets at the helm. Rocks ahead.
Very exiting 😆
We are no longer a serious country
So what we had in England pre Brexit ?
Seriously?
So can we, in mainland Britain, have the same access please?
Do you think this new Brexit deal is good?
Rishi Sunak says Northern Ireland was in 'unbelievably special position' because of access to EU single market. UK was in this 'unbelievably special position' for 47 years and then lost it due to Brexit.
RishiSunak There We Are Then 🤡's
EU single market is attractive and great and you are using it as an advert for investment? Why did you guys let that go?
Another Brexit Chancer then. He's going down in my estimations after a brief blip up yesterday. What a hypocrite.
The same special position they were in before brexit
Just the rest of the UK still up to their necks in the cack. Well done Supine Sunak
Can you imagine if the rest of 🇬🇧 had unfettered access to the EU? Oh!
Perhaps he didn't want to leave🤷♂️🤷♂️😉
Lucky Northern Ireland.
The majority in the uk voted to leave, it was as much about sovereignty!
So why can’t entire U.K. have a similar deal, a “Norway type thingy” perhaps? RishiSunak Newsnight ConHome
Perhaps another referendum is being lined up?
Do reciprocal terms apply to eu goods going to the Republic-eg UK has oversight, Rep follows UK law, UK courts have primacy etc ..,.?
It’s ok now because the rest of the UK 🇬🇧 has full access to the EU free trade through Northern Ireland. So plentiful supply of fresh produce etc from the rest of Europe. Boom 💥 cheers sunny Sunak.
Gobshite. Something all of Britain had, in2016
Because leaving was more important to voters in England & Wales than access to the single market. How's that 300 million pounds to the NHS & less Migrants working out? You reap what you sow 🤷
I thought access to the EU was a bad thing?
15:40🇩🇪German Foreign Minister A.Baerbock said today that the large amount of uranium enriched by Iran cannot be used only for civilian purposes. In her comment, she referred to earlier reports that Iran had managed to enrich uranium to 84%. THE MODERN TORTURE OF SPANISH POLICE.
Rubbish
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha *Breaths in* Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha *Dies from massive overdose of irony*
So why brexit exactly? 😂
I get the finer detail; but what i think strange is that Govt. intervention has given NI businesses a competitive advantage over a mainland based business. How can that be fair? Does some mainland businesses now need to be 'levelled up' to be on a par with NI?
Why not do the same deal for whole o Uk
EU laws, single market and ECJ - not exactly Brexit then 🙄
And unbelievably special position that we gave up
Why are people so terrified to NOT belong to the EU? Why so eager to be governed ,from immigration to commerce policy, by a FOREIGN COUNTRY?
😅😅imagine if Britain had that somehow had that privilege as well now