Ministers facing 'difficult' fight to override Northern Ireland protocol
The Guardian|June 11, 2022
Controversial legislation to disapply parts of the Northern Ireland protocol will be published next week, but senior government sources acknowledged it was going to be a "difficult" process to get it through parliament.
Rowena Mason
Ministers facing 'difficult' fight to override Northern Ireland protocol

The new laws are aimed at unilaterally changing parts of the protocol to make trade easier between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, but critics warned that overriding the post-Brexit treaty could contravene international law.

The bill will be published on Monday along with a legal document that the government hopes will address some concerns.

A senior government source denied that the legislation had been substantially changed as a result of lobbying by the hardline Eurosceptic right of the Tory party after a meeting between Liz Truss, the foreign secretary, and Bill Cash, a member of the European Research Group (ERG).

The source said there "shouldn't be any big surprises", adding "we engage all the time with MPs across the party" and the ERG had "not had particularly privileged access".

They said the legislation would include "practical reasonable solutions to fix parts of the protocol including bits that don't work, east-west trade, governance, dual regulation and state aid".

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