Rishi Sunak wins key Brexit vote – but suffers Tory rebellion

Ex-Prime Minister Liz Truss and Boris Johnson have announced they will rebel against the key Stormont brake vote on Wednesday alongside hardline MPs of the Brexiteer on the Conservative benches. Rishi Sunak's key Brexit deal passed the Commons with the backing of Labor (

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Rishi Sunak won a key vote on his Brexit deal but suffered an embarrassing Tory mutiny as ex-Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss rebelled.

The vote passed 515 to 29 – a majority of 486 – in favor of the Windsor executive's Stormont brake.

A total of 22 Tory MPs voted against the deal, including former prime ministers, former party chairman Sir Jake Berry and former ministers Priti Patel and Simon Clarke.

No votes were cast for more than 40 Conservatives, suggesting a significant number of abstentions.

Radical Brexiteer MPs had led a revolt against the Prime Minister's deal to ease trade between Britain and Northern Ireland.

Hours before the crucial vote on the deal, former prime ministers announced they would vote against the Stormont brake mechanism.

Mr. Johnson said the plan was "unacceptable" and argued that his own Northern Ireland Protocol Bill, which flouted the law, was the best way forward.

He claimed that the Windsor Framework proposals could mean Northern Ireland would remain "seized by the EU legal order".

Ex-Home Secretary Priti Patel also said she would vote against it, telling the Telegraph: 'I won't buy government smoke and mirror shares on Windsor.'

Boris Johnson voted against the Prime Minister's deal (

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A group of hardline Brexiteer MPs - the European Research Group (ERG) - said earlier it 'strongly recommends' its members to oppose the deal.

The braking mechanism would allow a minority of Stormont Assembly MPs to formally signal their concerns about the imposition of new EU laws in Northern Ireland - a move that could see the UK government veto their introduction.

Earlier this week, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said it opposed the deal during a blockade...