Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy said Government threats to tear up the Northern Ireland Protocol have come at “the worst possible time”. As well as intensifying the economic squeeze, Mr Lammy said it is “wrong, short-sighted and ill-judged” to open up divisions
Ten Tory MPs rebelled against the Government when the rise was put to a vote, with a further 44 abstaining. Now, Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak are under pressure from backbenchers again to scrap the rise altogether. Last week, the Office for