BORIS Johnson has today called for hardline Brexiteer MPs to back his historic £660billion trade deal with the EU ahead of next week’s last-minute vote.
As details of the deal were today published in a document featuring a whopping 1,255 pages, the PM admitted “the devil is in the detail” – but insisted it’s the right thing for both sides.
The document is expected to be passed through Parliament without issue before coming into force on January 1.
MPs will be recalled from their Christmas break next Wednesday to ratify the text.
Even Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to back the triumphant treaty – and he’s likely to whip his MPs to do the same.
However, some Tory MPs believe the UK should be leaving without a deal – meaning trade with Brussels would revert to baseline World Trade Organisation rules.
But Mr Johnson says hailed the breakthrough after four years of wrangling and deadlock – and says the deal has “delivered on every one of our manifesto commitments”.
“I believe we now have a basis for long term friendship and partnership with the EU as sovereign equals,” the Prime Minister said in a WhatsApp message to MPs seen by Sky News.
“I know the devil is in the detail but I am sure this can survive the most ruthless and Talmudic scrutiny from the star chamber legal eagles.”
The so-called ‘star chamber’ – a panel of lawyers assembled by the European Research Group – is likely to meet tomorrow.
Brexiteer Sir Bill Cash sits on the committee, and it’s understood some MPs are awaiting his judgement before deciding how to vote.
Mr Johnson finished his message: “We must remember that what the public want us to do is focus above all on defeating Covid and rebuilding our economy.
“I am glad that at least one uncertainty is now out of the way.
“P.S. On fish, we are talking hundreds of thousand of tonnes more even in the transition period! Enough fish to stretch to the South Pole and back!”
And he told Brits publicly the deal brings “certainty to business, travellers and all the investors in our country — and a happy, successful and stable partnership with our friends in the EU for years to come.”
We revealed today the PM secured the landmark Christmas Eve deal hours after telling Brussels: “I won’t sign it – I won’t” in a row over taxes.
Mr Johnson warned the EU its demands to slap trade tariffs on Britain if we did not let them fish our waters forever was a deal breaker.
A source told Trending In The News: “The PM was ready to walk at that point.
“We were writing a script trying to explain to the world we had blown up a £660billion deal over less than a billion quid of fish.”
Mr Johnson’s hardline stance saw Brussels blink on the demand late on Tuesday, with the EU asking for a long transition for their fishing boats “as cover” for their climbdown.
And hours later, the PM told Brits his deal is “glad tidings of great joy” for the UK as we will be unshackled from 40 years of Brussels control.
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