Johnson’s NI Protocol warning not completely unhelpful, says Mordaunt

Penny Mordaunt said Boris Johnson’s intervention was not ‘completely unhelpful’ (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Boris Johnson’s warning over a deal to fix issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol was not “completely unhelpful”, a British senior cabinet minister has said.

The former British prime minister said overnight that dropping the Protocol Bill – which would empower the UK to unilaterally scrap parts of the treaty – would be a “great mistake”.