Now Boris tries to sabotage his own bungled Brexit deal with new attack on Sunak

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Sammy Wilson MP, the most outspoken, said the UK would still have to follow EU rules.
53% : The Brexiteer said on Times Radio that British firms must simply "adapt" to the new rules which began on Wednesday, and suggested they should even consider "changing their trading arrangements with the EU" if they were struggling.
50% : Despite effectively being an extension of his own deal, Mr Johnson joined Tory rebels in claiming the new arrangements could thwart Britain's post-Brexit "freedom" to diverge from EU rules.
50% : "It is vital that there's nothing in the deal which prevents Great Britain from diverging from EU rules," she told The Telegraph.
49% : In a bid to keep both the DUP and Brexiteers happy in allowing UK-wide divergence from EU standards, there is also a legal requirement that any new legislation is assessed as to whether it "impacts on trade between Northern Ireland and Great Britain".
47% : Boris Johnson has attacked Rishi Sunak's new Brexit deal with the DUP - warning that it could tie the UK to EU trade rules in future.
47% : "We must at all costs avoid a return to anything remotely like the disastrous 'Chequers' formula, whereby artificial concerns about the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland are used to keep the whole of the UK in alignment with EU rules.
46% : The trouble-making Tory peer warned that the new agreement with the DUP should not "slow" the push to diverge from the EU.
45% : Former home secretary Priti Patel and former business secretary Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg challenged Northern Ireland secretary Chris Heaton-Harris to explain how the UK would be able to diverge on EU rules without risking arrangements for Northern Ireland.
44% : "It came as Tory minister Andrea Leadsom dismissed the concerns of business chiefs over the costly new checks imposed on EU imports - calling them the "price you pay" for Brexit.
38% : "This is a result of this spineless, weak-kneed, Brexit-betraying government - refusing to take on the EU and its interference in Northern Ireland.

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