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.
