🔴 Hardline Conservative Brexiteers and the Democratic Unionist Party would oppose a mooted Brexit deal to resolve the long-running dispute on Northern Ireland, sources have told theipaper
“It’s generated lots of concerned discussion.”
EU officials on Wednesday reiterated the position outlined by the European Commission last month, which said that “scoping work for potential solutions” was continuing.Protocol was agreed by the UK and EU in 2019Designed as a means to keep the Irish land border free-flowing, it moved regulatory and customs checks on goods to the Irish Sea, creating economic barriers on trade between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.
The a separate agreement would be negotiated on exports of meat and live animals to Northern Ireland, with the UK agreeing to maintain EU veterinary standards on goods destined for the province.
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