Speaking on Wednesday, Lord Frost admitted that the burdens imposed by the mechanism"have been a source of considerable and ongoing disruption to lives and livelihoods".
"We expect the UK to implement what it has negotiated, signed and ratified," one senior figure told me."No ifs, no buts and no excuses.The idea of removing the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice might play well with some British voters, but to EU lawmakers it would be an outrageous concession.
The option of a"standstill", for example, is seen as simply an effort to buy time, with no real long-term plan. "We will continue to engage with the UK, also on the suggestions made today. We are ready to continue to seek creative solutions, within the framework of the protocol, in the interest of all communities in Northern Ireland. However, we will not agree to a renegotiation of the protocol."Ireland's Minister for European Affairs Thomas Bryne agreed, adding:"We don't want to renegotiate the protocol, it's there.
Fast forward 18 months and the UK government is effectively admitting that the checks were required by taking unilateral action to abandon most of them.
Whatever you think of the protocol or Brexit. What kind of prime minister signs deal tells us it's fantastic and then tries to wriggle out of a binding international treaty. He's doing this on all our behalf and making the UK look s* to the rest of the world, in the process
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