MADRID, March 2 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has admitted that he found it “very difficult” for him to support in the House of Commons the text that Rishi Sunak’s government agreed with the European Union to resolve the open dispute over the Northern Ireland Protocol included in the Brexit Agreement.

Johnson, a major political promoter of Brexit and a hardline advocate in negotiations with Brussels, has cast the first doubts about the support someone known as Marco de Windsor could garner among the most critical votes of the Conservative Party.

For Johnson, who has spoken publicly on the matter for the first time, the new agreement is little more than a “version” of what his government had rejected in his time, during Liz Truss’ tenure as secretary of state. According to him, the EU continues to want to impose its own laws in Great Britain.

“I would have a hard time choosing something like this, because I think we should have done something different,” said Johnson, who insisted Britain must “gain back control” it should not have had back then. is part of the EU.

“Brexit means nothing if we don’t do things differently in this country,” he added.

Johnson has even proposed the possibility of reinstating a bill that, during his time as prime minister, London initiated procedures to unilaterally challenge the Northern Ireland Protocol. Sunak parked the initiative, in a bid to bring the position closer to Brussels.

The current tenants of Downing Street will have to convince party hardliners as well as Northern Ireland’s unions for the new agreement to work and, for example, to restore lost institutions in Northern Ireland.

The main opposition formation, Labor, has confirmed it will support the new text when it goes to a vote in the House of Commons, guaranteeing ‘a priori’ that it becomes law.