Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he is “confident” of a negotiated solution being found to the Northern Ireland Protocol issues. The Prime Minister was speaking after his first official meeting with Irish premier Micheal Martin at the British-Irish Council summit in Blackpool. Mr Sunak, who is the first prime minister to attend the summit in 15 years, described his meeting with Mr Martin as “very positive”. “I want to see the institutions back up and running in Northern Ireland because that’s what the people in Northern Ireland need and deserve. The DUP has made clear it will not countenance a return to powersharing until the protocol’s economic barriers on trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland are scrapped.

Source: The Herald November 11, 2022 08:18 UTC