Micheál Martin’s remarks come as No 10 is expected to table draft legislation overriding key parts of withdrawal deal
Boris Johnson has been warned by his Irish counterpart that ditching the post-Brexit deal onwould be a “historic low point”, citing the outbreak of war in Ukraine as a reason why international law must be respected.
“As we look across our continent, as we see what is at stake when the rule of international law is threatened – it falls to all of us to work together and to stand by what we have agreed.” “We recognise the attractiveness of the protocol and the place that it leaves Northern Ireland in,” he told RTÉ. “But the reality is that we have now got ridiculously excessive checks on goods that are moving within the United Kingdom’s internal market that will never go near the Irish republic, that are absolutely no threat whatsoever to the integrity of the single market.”
The government, echoing the complaints of the Democratic Unionist party , which is refusing to back power-sharing institutions over the protocol, has said the current arrangements are undermining the Good Friday agreement by erecting barriers to trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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