Rishi Sunak will meet the president of the European Commission on Monday to sign off on their Brexit deal for Northern Ireland.
After months of negotiation and a week of delays Ursula von der Leyen will head to Britain to formally announce their agreement on a three-part solution to the contentious Northern Irish protocol.
Downing Street said the two leaders had “agreed to continue their work in person towards shared, practical solutions for the range of complex challenges around the protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland”.
No 10 sources said they did not expect the Democratic Unionist Party to back the agreement but hoped that they and other unionists in Northern Ireland would not reject it outright.
Behind the scenes Sunak and senior government figures
