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Will Westminster ever fix the Northern Ireland protocol?

16 March 2022

2:20 AM

16 March 2022

2:20 AM

Last night’s spat between the Foreign Office and the Treasury was hardly reassuring for Unionists. If you missed it, a Treasury amendment proposed a change to customs regulations where ‘UK’ was replaced with ‘Great Britain’.

What’s so bad about that, you might ask. The answer is that it would have codified the carving-out of Northern Ireland as a separate legal entity.

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