BREXIT MINISTER DAVID Frost is to submit a new Northern Ireland Protocol to the European Commission today, he told a conference in Lisbon.
Frost took issue with the oversight of the European Court of Justice in the current Protocol, and asked that the “poison be drawn” from the debate – asking that the word ‘Protocol’ would no longer be used.
Frost said that when the UK Government signed up to the Protocol, it “knew some aspects of the Protocol were problematic,” and “didn’t support them but we agreed with them as it was the right thing to do for the country overall”. “If there is a trust problem, as we’re constantly told there is, it’s not the responsibility of only one party,” he said.
Frost’s speech comes a day before the EU is due to produce its plans to resolve issues with the Protocol, which has led to the creation of economic barriers between Northern Ireland and Britain. The EU plan is likely to include a proposal that chilled meats can continue crossing the Irish Sea after the end of current grace periods, in a move to alleviate the so-called sausage wars.Ahead of his speech, Downing Street said the UK had signed up to the Protocol “good faith” but the way it was being operated by the EU could not continue.
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