{"id":1015106,"date":"2023-03-06T06:58:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T06:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=275799"},"modified":"2023-03-06T06:58:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T06:58:04","slug":"rishi-sunak-now-cosplays-as-an-anti-brexiteer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/06\/rishi-sunak-now-cosplays-as-an-anti-brexiteer\/","title":{"rendered":"Rishi Sunak Now Cosplays as an Anti-Brexiteer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The anomalous status of Northern Ireland with regard to EU trade was papered-over by the Northern Ireland protocol in BoJo\u2019s deal. \u00a0The NI protocol upheld the principle of the \u201cfrictionless\u201d border, but also maintained the need for checks on goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the latter now basically being a part of the EU\u2019s single market). The was much mirth in mainstream and social media about BoJo having to place this border somewhere in the middle of the Irish Sea. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/06\/rishi-sunak-now-cosplays-as-an-anti-brexiteer\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/06\/rishi-sunak-now-cosplays-as-an-anti-brexiteer\/\">Rishi Sunak Now Cosplays as an Anti-Brexiteer<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/06\/rishi-sunak-now-cosplays-as-an-anti-brexiteer\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anomalous status of Northern Ireland with regard to EU trade was papered-over by the Northern Ireland protocol in BoJo\u2019s deal. \u00a0The NI protocol upheld the principle of the \u201cfrictionless\u201d border, but also maintained the need for checks on goods betw&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015107,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015106\/revisions\/1015107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}