UK’s Johnson says ‘difficult’ to back new N.Irish Brexit deal [Video]

Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson said Thursday he would find it “very difficult” to vote for successor Rishi Sunak’s new EU deal overhauling post-Brexit trade rules in Northern Ireland.

Johnson, whose supporters accuse Sunak of betrayal for having helped force the former leader out last year, broke his silence after the breakthrough deal was announced on Monday.

“I’m going to find it very difficult to vote for something like this myself, because I believed we should’ve done something very different,” Johnson said in a speech in London.

“This is not about the UK taking back control,” he said.

“This is the EU graciously unbending to allow us to do what we want to do in our own country, not by our laws, but by theirs.”

As prime minister, Johnson rammed through the old “Northern Ireland Protocol” in his rush to withdraw Britain from the EU.

He admitted in his …