Following the announcement of the Windsor Framework at the end of February and the approaching anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Rishi Sunak wants the US president to visit Northern Ireland.
'An incredibly positive step forward'
It was designed to reduce the number of checks on goods entering Northern Ireland ports by designating two lanes for them. Products which are travelling through Northern Ireland to get to the Republic of Ireland - which is in the EU - will go via a red lane, ensuring they pass all the customs checks they need to before crossing the Irish Sea.
But products which are set to stay in Northern Ireland - and therefore in the UK - will go via a green lane, which Mr Sunak said would see the current"burdensome customs bureaucracy scrapped", e.g. no more documents.
Drugs approved for use by the UK's medicines regulator would be available in every pharmacy and hospital in Northern IrelandThe Stormont brake is also an important element of the framework, which would give the Northern Ireland Assembly that creates laws in Northern Ireland the power to oppose new EU legislation.
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