The head of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party on Tuesday voiced his strongest concerns to date over a UK-EU deal to simplify post-Brexit trade rules, saying his party was seeking changes from the British government.
on the deal and on Tuesday said it was talking with the British government about how its concerns might be addressed in legislation.
Previous DUP statements had said the party was ready to engage on changes and clarifications as required. The consultative group is due to report back by the end of March., a complex agreement which set the trading rules for the British-ruled region that London agreed before it left the EU but now says are unworkable.
"What we are doing on an ongoing basis is identifying what those concerns are and what the remedy is in law, particularly legislation," he said.
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