UK’s Sunak Wins Vote on Key Part of Post-Brexit Deal With EU
- Sunak avoids any major Conservative rebellion over plans
- 515 MPs voted in favor of new arrangements, 29 voted against
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Rishi Sunak’s government emphatically won a parliamentary vote on a key part of its new post-Brexit deal with the European Union, avoiding a significant backbench rebellion over trade with Northern Ireland but failing to resolve a long-running dispute over power-sharing in the region.
MPs voted by 515 to 29 to back the so-called Stormont Brake, a new mechanism that allows the UK to stop changes to EU laws automatically applying in Northern Ireland.