RISHI Sunak will share an awkward dinner with Boris Johnson and Liz Truss tomorrow after the pair tried to wreck his Brexit plans.
All living ex-PMs have been invited to Northern Ireland for a gala dinner celebrating 25 years of the Belfast Agreement.
The PM will face an awkward run-in with his recent predecessors at a gala in Belfast
It will be their first get-together since Johnson and Truss’s flopped attempt to vote down the Windsor Framework
It will be the first time the trio have broken bread since Johnson and Truss’s flopped attempt to vote down Sunak’s Windsor Framework deal with Brussels to ease Brexit trade barriers.
They both voted against the deal with a handful of other Tory rebels – but were thumped after Labour joined with the Government to pass it.
Mr Sunak will travel to Belfast to host a dinner marking a quarter of a century of peace in the province.
Ahead of the dinner, Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton Harris will warn today that a “small minority who seek to drag Northern Ireland back to its darkest days”.
He will say they will “never succeed” as the people of Northern Ireland reject “violence which has no place in the society so many have fought so hard to create.”
Hailing Northern Ireland as a “thriving centre of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship”, he will insist the Government “remains wholly committed to protecting and upholding” the Good Friday Agreement.
The signing of the Good Friday Agreement brought an end to the Troubles in 1998.
This historic treaty on April 10 put in place a cross-community power-sharing government in Stormont and a disarmament programme.
Covering two different documents – a multi-party agreement and a British-Irish agreement – the agreement was backed by voters in a referendum in May 1998.
Direct London rule came to an end when the British-Irish Agreement came into force on December 2, 1999.
The multi-party agreement committed Sinn Féin and the Progressive Unionist Party to “use any influence they have” to bring about the decommissioning of all paramilitary arms within two years of the referendums approving the agreement.
