The guy is a muppet looking to make a name for himself, and he has been found out.
Let's be perfectly clear .. he wanted forces involved in NI to be given protection under the "Overseas Operations Bill" ... there is no way on this earth that was ever going to happen .. the number of folks, including many on here, who would have overloaded the "outrage bus" with cries of "NI is not an Overseas Territory, Boris splits the UK" or similar would be huge.
Yes forces in NI need the same, or probably better, protection .. but that would have to be in a Bill that was for UK based operations, as, as far as I remember, NI is still a part of the UK. So why was he not advocating that rather than throwing teddy out of the cot ?