Rishi Sunak gets a bad rap but he was good for Ireland

campaign, it is worth pointing out that as far as Ireland is concerned he was a decent and honourable British prime minister who put a huge effort into restoring good relations between the two countries.Part of the reason the British right and its media cheerleaders hate Sunak so much is that he abandoned the futile jingoistic posturing of his predecessors and, despite his initial support for Brexit , found a way to establish trust with EU leaders.

Far from getting political credit at home for the skill he showed in persuading the EU to make significant changes to the Protocol, and to some extent restoring the UK’s reputation at international level in the process, Sunak was assailed by the right wing of his own party., both Martin and Varadkar paid tribute to Sunak’s professionalism and skill in the way he approached the apparently intractable problem he inherited with the Protocol.

As long as a hard border was avoided, Varadkar was not too bothered about what the deal was called, or how it was presented. “And I did feel that Rishi Sunak was really trying here and it would be necessary for him to be able to show that he had achieved something that his predecessor maybe hadn’t,” he added.

Martin takes a similar view on the substantive nature of the changes. “Everyone told unionism that there could be no movement on some issues but in the end there was. Separate channels for goods moving from Britain to Northern Ireland, trusted trader schemes, the use of technology and data had all been ruled out but, in the end, they were agreed.”

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