Divisions within the Conservative Party must not dictate the UK approach to negotiations over the Northern Ireland Protocol, the Irish foreign affairs minister has said. simoncoveney
Divisions within the Conservative Party must not dictate the UK approach to negotiations over the Northern Ireland Protocol, the Irish foreign affairs minister has said.
It comes amid a stand-off between the UK and the EU over the Northern Ireland Protocol, an agreement designed to avoid a border on the island of Ireland and which instead created fresh checks on trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He said he hoped planned legislation to override parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol would not become the “price” of Conservative Party support for Mr Johnson.
He said the UK Government was instead “threatening to publish legislation this week which would effectively be using British domestic law to breach international law by setting aside elements of their treaty obligations”.
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