Johnson Set for Fresh Fight With His Own Party to Pass Brexit Re-Write Plan

Moderate Tories, House of Lords set to oppose Brexit law
Legal experts call UK position ‘unpersuasive,’ ‘implausible’

WATCH: The EU is threatening legal action over the UK’s Brexit override bill. Lizzy Burden and Maria Tadeo have the details.Source: Bloomberg

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By Joe Mayes and Ellen Milligan

June 13, 2022 at 9:59 PM UTC

Updated on

June 14, 2022 at 1:02 PM UTC

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is heading for a fresh fight with his own Conservative Party over a plan to override the Brexit deal with the European Union, which risks a trade war with the bloc and renewed legal retaliation.

Johnson’s plan published Monday, which would give ministers the power to unilaterally rewrite the bulk of the Northern Ireland protocol, was immediately condemned by the EU, panned by legal experts and may face stiff opposition in Parliament. In a sign of the trouble to come, Conservative MP Roger Gale, a long-standing Johnson critic, said he intended to vote against it.