Crunch Time: The Readout With Ruth David

After the handshake comes (more) hard work. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been in Belfast today, trying to win over political leaders and business on the merits of his post-Brexit deal with the European Union. Sunak will also have to woo skeptics within his party. He is scheduled to be addressing the 1922 committee of backbench Tory MPs as this email hits your inbox. The European Research Group of Brexiteer MPs is awaiting advice from its lawyers and will meet this evening. And the prospect of a sizeable parliamentary rebellion still looms, report my colleagues Ellen Milligan and Alex Wickham.

Investors in British assets are also starting to speak out on what this means. Firms including BlackRock and Abrdn are of the view that the deal will only remove some of the uncertainty that has plagued the country since the vote to leave the European Union in 2016.