Boris Johnson is facing a parliamentary revolt over a plan to unilaterally override the Northern Ireland Brexit deal as European leaders warned the prime minister not to touch the agreement.
Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, told Johnson not to “scrap or break or in any way change” the protocol, which was signed by the prime minister in 2019.
Micheál Martin, the Irish taoiseach, condemned the plan, saying it would destabilise the peace process. Alexander De Croo, the prime minister of Belgium, told Johnson: “Don’t touch this.”
This morning Michael Gove, the levelling-up secretary, confirmed that “no option was off the table” on the protocol. Asked if the government was going to “tear up” its deal with the EU, Gove said: “No. We are going to
