A group of Eurosceptic MPs has described the Stormont brake - a key part of Rishi Sunak's renegotiated Brexit deal - 'practically useless'
Sir Jeffery Donaldson DUP leader says Brexit deal 'not sufficient'
Sir Jeffrey said the brake"is not designed for, and therefore cannot apply, to the EU law which is already in place and for which no consent has been given for its application". The NI protocol was agreed as part of Boris Johnson's"oven ready" Brexit deal and was designed to prevent a hard border in the interests of preserving the peace secured in the Good Friday Agreement.
Last February the DUP pulled out of the arrangement for devolved government in Northern Ireland in protest at the protocol, effectively leaving the region without government.The UK and Brussels agreed the Windsor Framework as a way to incentivise the return of power-sharing in Northern Ireland and to allay some of the key concerns of Unionists.
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