LIVE PMQs: Rishi Sunak faces Keir Starmer

Rishi Sunak said he was “confident” that Northern Ireland’s parties would back his Brexit deal as pressure mounted on the Democratic Unionist Party to return to powersharing. The Prime Minister insisted that his new Brexit deal for Northern Ireland addressed the concerns of unionists despite the “small and limited” role for European Union law and its court. Mr Sunak spoke to leaders of some of Stormont’s political parties, who urged the DUP to end its boycott. The Prime Minister said he believed “hand on heart” that the Windsor Framework addressed the concerns expressed about the current post-Brexit trading arrangements which led to the DUP walking away from Stormont. #pmqs