More details of how the Stormont brake will work are due to be published later today
More details of how the so-called "Stormont brake" aspect of the new Brexit deal for Northern Ireland will work are due to be published later.
The checks were required under the original Brexit deal in order to maintain an open land border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, which is in the EU.The party has blocked the functioning of the power-sharing government at Stormont for over a year in protest against the trade rules for Northern Ireland in the original deal.
But the main political parties at Stormont have been seeking clarification about it, which the government has promised it would provide.Assembly members at Stormont can use the brake to raise an objection to new EU laws applying to Northern Ireland. But it has also said that it can only be used in the "most exceptional circumstances and as a matter of last resort".Some of the Northern Ireland political parties say the Stormont brake sounds like a unionist veto.
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