Britain’s Brexit minister David Frost is not a “trustworthy interlocutor” and his current stance against the European Union is not credible, an Irish MEP has claimed at an Oireachtas Committee. “He is of a cohort that has consistently underplayed the significance of Brexit for the island of Ireland. They have consistently ignored warnings about the effects of it on the island of Ireland and rammed through the Northern Ireland protocol to get Brexit done. “We have seen quite a bit of grandstanding, which only exacerbates the existing sensitivities that have arisen from balancing the Good Friday [Belfast] Agreement with Brexit and with the Northern Ireland Protocol,” he said. Fine Gael MEP Maria Walsh also spoke about the impact of Brexit for the Irish fishing industry.

Source: The Irish Times June 08, 2021 14:48 UTC