New DUP leader Edwin Poots has said the Northern Ireland Protocol is not fixable in its current state. “The vote was the UK leaving the European Union, not Great Britain,” he said. So, as the grace period is coming to an end, we in Northern Ireland will have 15,000 checks per week of our goods at our ports of goods coming from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, because of the apparent risk of the single market. “Now, there’s actually less checks that take place on the whole eastern part of the European Union. “But the Prime Minister of Ireland, and it is shameful that he used that type of messaging to the European Union.”

Source: Irish Independent June 03, 2021 21:49 UTC