European Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic Image: PA European Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic Image: PA MAROS SEFCOVIC HAS said it is “high time we got Brexit done” during a speech in London in which he warned that plans to rip up the Northern Ireland Protocol would prove unworkable.
“Ministers in London would have the freedom to change the rules on a whim. A dual regulatory regime, where businesses opt for EU or UK regulations, would bury them under a mountain of bureaucracy.“This would clearly be a lose-lose situation – for EU-UK relations and, first and foremost, for Northern Ireland.”
Sefcovic opened his speech by referencing a speech by then-prime minister David Cameron at Bloomberg in 2013, which some see as having kickstarted the path to the 2016 Brexit referendum.“You may not hear this often from a European Commissioner, but it is high time we got Brexit done,” he said. The EU negotiator, who last met Foreign Secretary Liz Truss face-to-face in February, declined to be drawn at length about the possibility of a hard border on the island of Ireland, if no solution can be found to the row.
“That’s why we for the first time, and I’m pretty sure the last time in our history, have been ready to outsource the control of our external economic border to the UK Government.”
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