"... Mr Johnson has been shown to be as treacherous as his critics would have us believe. Whatever the rights and wrong of the arguments, his sellout of his coalition partners, Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist party, was a spectacular betrayal.
Speaking to their conference, before he was leader, he asserted that “no British Conservative government could or should sign up” to a regulatory and customs border in the Irish Sea. He last week signed up to one.
Worse still, from the unionist perspective, his version of a democratic check on the Northern Irish arrangements breaches the fundamental principle of the Good Friday Agreement that major decisions require cross-community consent. As Mr Johnson splashes out assurances to get his deal through, it is no surprise MPs are not minded to take him at his word."