Former foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer says the United Kingdom’s controversial new Brexit bill is part of their negotiating strategy with the EU to prevent it from establishing a trade border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Former foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer says the United Kingdom’s controversial new Brexit bill is part of their negotiating strategy with the EU to prevent the EU from establishing a trade border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. His comments come after news the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson introduced a new Brexit bill which gives the government power to override parts of the UK’s Brexit agreement and break international law.
“This is part of the negotiating strategy where the UK is making it clear if the negotiations fail, the simple point is that they’re not going to allow the EU to establish a trade border between great Britain, that’s England Scotland and Wales, on the one hand, and Northern Ireland on the other,” Mr Downer told Sky News host Peta Credlin. “Because the British government understandably argued that the EU would be breaking up the UK if they did that.
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