Rees-Mogg wades in as Brexiteers told to give Sunak ‘space’ on Northern Ireland

Jacob Rees-Mogg criticised the Prime Minister’s tactics over Northern Ireland (Aaron Chown/PA)

Jacob Rees-Mogg has accused Rishi Sunak of imitating Theresa May’s doomed Brexit strategy as Tory Eurosceptics were urged to allow the “time and space” needed to fix the Northern Ireland Protocol.

The prominent Brexiteer questioned why “so much political capital” was being spent on brokering a new deal without ensuring the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and his wing of the Conservative Party were on board.