Dear John,

I wrote to you yesterday to acknowledge the positive progress that has been achieved for people and businesses in Northern Ireland and across the UK. Best for Britain's team has been working tirelessly to push this government into rebuilding our relationship with Europe and engage in constructive negotiations and with your campaigning efforts we have forced them into being constructive - for a change.

With yesterday's success in mind I'm writing to ask if you’ll help us build on this work. There's so much more to do and we need to make the next few months count if we're going to get the deeper and closer friendship with the EU that we want.

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I don't agree with Rishi Sunak on much, and I definitely did not want Brexit. So I'm not used to approving of actions taken by this government. However, I believe Best for Britain's supporters have helped push them in the right direction - we want a closer, constructive relationship with Europe and this week that is what we got.

The new deal, which you'll have seen called the ‘Windsor Framework’, breaks down some of the barriers to trading with Europe and brings certainty to businesses across the UK that have been struggling to find opportunities since Brexit. These problems have been a huge part of the parties being unable to agree to power-sharing in Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Assembly has not been able to function.

But the Windsor Framework has started to fix that.

The EU also announced yesterday that now the Northern Ireland problem is solved and the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill has officially been dropped they are open to the UK rejoining the Horizon programme which supports and funds science and research - a massive boost to a sector that should be the UK's pride and joy.

You may not know this already, but this would almost certainly not have come about without Best for Britain’s work behind the scenes to block the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill and force Rishi Sunak into negotiating a whole new deal in the first place.

Over the last year, you helped us:

• Collect 20,000 supporters like you to sign petitions and contact MPs about the NI Protocol Bill
• Provided briefings for Lords and helped draft amendments and strategy to block the NI Protocol Bill
• Built a coalition of Lords to build a strategy to block the Bill
• Convened meetings and briefings with dozens of Lords and experts to gain support for this strategy, putting the entire Bill under threat and forcing Rishi Sunak to find a new solution
• Worked to ensure opposition to this Bill received as much media coverage as possible, increasing the need for Rishi to avoid a public embarrassment of defeat on it

I’m proud of the excellent work you helped our team to do, and I'm incredibly grateful to have supporters like you with us, helping to secure a more promising future for Northern Ireland, the UK and rebuild the relationship with our EU friends. The 78+ businesses that signed our open letter celebrating this new deal yesterday agreed.

No relationship with Europe is better than the one we had inside the EU, but with your help we are campaigning tirelessly to restore and rebuild our ties with our friends across the continent. And we're winning.

This week is a massive step forward in rebuilding constructive dialogue between the UK and EU. Best for Britain will keep pushing for deeper ties and closer working between our country and our friends across Europe.

I'm glad to have you with us, and thank you for supporting the campaign.

Best regards,

Naomi Smith
CEO, Best for Britain

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