Rishi Sunak is poised to unveil a Brexit deal with the EU on Monday that will overhaul Northern Ireland’s trading arrangements and end a bitter dispute between the two sides.
Although the UK prime minister plans to seal an agreement with Brussels, he still faces a political battle to win over Eurosceptic Conservative MPs and Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist party, which has hobbled the region’s devolved government.
Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, will travel to Windsor on Monday morning to hold talks with Sunak aimed at finalising the Brexit deal to revamp Northern Ireland’s trading regime. People briefed on the proposed agreement said it would run to more than 100 pages.