Rishi Sunak heads to PMQs empty-handed, having failed to put a deal on the Northern Ireland protocol to a vote in parliament on Tuesday as he had hoped.

Both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer have good reasons for wanting these talks to succeed — Sunak because he wants to fix the problem quickly and Starmer because he would rather not have to fix it when (as the polls suggest) he could become PM in 2024.

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