The Irish News view: NIO minister Steve Baker is wrong to say basis of unity vote should change

Boris Johnson has said he would refuse to pay the promised £39bn to the EU unless it offers better terms on Brexit.

‘It probably should have been a supermajority – that’s a huge thing for me to say’, says Steve Baker on 2016 referendum.

There are good reasons to believe latest move is partly theatre, but there are hefty issues at stake.

A pro-Brexit minister and MPs have accused the Civil Service of pursuing a ‘Remain’ agenda. Steve Bullock, a former civil servant, argues that the consequences of undermining civil servants in this way are potentially disastrous.

If departing the EU has failed to deliver, why is the UK still so divided? Seven years on, we ask behavioural psychologists if cognitive dissonance can be overcome.

Northern Ireland Minister Steve Baker is seeking to renegotiate part of the Brexit trade agreement to fix problems caused by the Northern Ireland Protocol.

The North is facing another toxic, polarising and futile Assembly election.

Ex-adviser to PM says flawed Brexit deal was way to ‘whack Corbyn’ and ‘of course’ government can break it.

Ian Taylor launches attack on Boris Johnson's "misleading" promise to "Get Brexit Done".

Food industry trade bodies are discussing whether to take legal action against the government over post-Brexit plans that will require all meat and dairy products sold in the UK to be labelled as “not for EU”.

The apologetic comments of Northern Ireland Minister Steve Baker are surprising and positive but not completely unexpected. Baker was waving a flag, in a wider diplomatic game.

Tory rebel defends amendment that would prevent Commons shutdown for no-deal Brexit.

Brexiteer Steve Baker, who is now a Northern Ireland Minister, has apologised for his 'ferocious' stance on negotiations with the EU.

Many Conservative party members will be wondering where they go from here. / There is talk of damage limitation and trying to save as many seats as possible in the next election.

Boris Johnson agreed in the final hours of the Northern Ireland Protocol negotiations that there would be customs declarations on goods exiting Northern Ireland to Britain, despite the fact that just three weeks later he told businesses in the North there would be "no forms, no checks, no barriers of any kind…," according to a detailed new account of the protocol negotiations.

EU gives go-ahead to weekend meetings after PM appears to backtrack on customs stance.

Shanker Singham’s Competere offers advice on opportunities arising from Brexit.

Huge constitutional clash looms if Tory rebels join bid to spike guns of a new Tory leader. / Boris Johnson’s vow to deliver a no-deal Brexit is facing a major cross-party ambush after Labour moved to give parliament new control over the process.

Trade minister rejected Boris Johnson’s claim exporters would be spared tariffs after no deal

Taoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin has welcomed an apology from Northern Ireland Minister Steve Baker over Brexit negotiations as "honest" and "very helpful".

Steve Baker MP makes comments at right-wing Libertarian Alliance conference in 2010.

MP Steve Baker has apologised for the "pain and difficulty" Brexit has caused to Wycombe residents.

A Government minister has expressed regret that the Brexit referendum did not require a supermajority to pass.

“The reason the UK will have the lowest growth in the G7 next year is Brexit. We’re not going to reverse the decline until we begin to remove the barriers – economic, social, scientific – that we chose to erect with the rest of our continent. That’s not rocket science. Just say it.”

But, it’s worth remembering that all of the Conservatives who are now praising the Windsor Framework (Sunak’s tweaked version of the Northern Ireland Protocol) once extended the same excitement to Johnson’s original deal in 2019...

It’s not even about “we told you so”, it’s the Brexiters telling it themselves.

Boris Johnson will be remembered as a “pound shop Nigel Farage” if he votes against Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal, Steve Baker has said.

The leader of the right-wing Tory pressure group the European Research Group (ERG) has stepped down.

Conservative MP Steve Baker has apologised for some of his behaviour towards Ireland and the EU during the Brexit process.

Northern Ireland minister’s proposal comes after PM denied plans for Swiss-style relationship with EU.

The new Prime Minister was decisively on the side of those who claimed that the country would have a better future outside the EU.

A government minister has warned the Democratic Unionist Party that Rishi Sunak's Brexit deal is a good as it is going to get.

This subset of Brexit ultras is revelling in their moment in the spotlight to deploy metaphors of war and martyrdom.

Conservative minister Steve Baker has said he is “really sorry” to the EU for “not always behaving” in a way that did not foster trust.

Jacob Rees-Mogg and Priti Patel tweet support for offshoot of US group accused of anti-Islam views.

Having, by his own admission, completely failed to understand the horrors that the EU referendum would unleash on the politics of the United Kingdom, it is partly grimly ironic, but mainly just grim, that self-described Brexit hardman Steve Baker is now bringing to bear his unique brand of absolutely no wisdom whatsoever to the political sensitivities of Northern Ireland.

Baker has joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a group that perpetuates “lies and falsehoods” over climate science.

Steve Baker, a “Brexit spartan” who voted against Theresa May’s deal with the EU on all three occasions, has said the vote to leave the EU should have required a supermajority of 60 per cent.