Sunak’s Windsor Framework Deal Passes First Parliamentary Hurdle

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak departs 10 Downing Street to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, in London, on March 22, 2023. Victoria Jones/PA Media

A new post-Brexit trading arrangement for Northern Ireland has cleared its first parliamentary hurdle after MPs voted in its favour.

Despite opposition from some Conservatives and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 515 politicians voted in favour of implementing the new Windsor Framework’s “Stormont brake”—with 29 opposing the UK-EU agreed mechanism.