“The Belfast Good Friday Agreement was a huge step-change for Northern Ireland in a positive direction.
“We’re now seeing that undermined by the fact that the Northern Ireland protocol isn’t working,” the politician told Sky News.
Liz had outlined her intention to bring forward legislation within weeks, overwriting parts of the post-Brexit deal, freeing goods destined to stay within the UK from EU-level checks.
She told the Commons the plans were necessary to reduce “unnecessary bureaucracy” and to protect the Good Friday Agreement, explaining that the EU’s proposals “would go backward from the situation we have today”.
