Boris Johnson’s hypocrisy on the Northern Ireland protocol is a new low

Boris Johnson has never seemed very bothered by the wishes of those in Northern Ireland.

The prime minister pushed through a Brexit deal that the majority in Northern Ireland opposed and has been keen to cosy up a Democratic Unionist Party that won just over a fifth of the votes in May’s Northern Irish election.

But now Johnson – and his allies in the DUP – can’t stop talking about one word: ‘consent’.