Reforming the Protocol
What happened Liz Truss confirmed this week that ministers would bring forward a new law to unilaterally suspend parts of the post-Brexit trade deal for Northern Ireland, which she said was “undermining” the peace process. The Foreign Secretary stressed that the Government was seeking to fix, not scrap, the Protocol, and claimed the bill would be legal under international law. Truss said negotiations with the EU about the operation of the Protocol would continue “in parallel” with the passage of the law through the Commons, which could take up to a year. The EU said it was happy to continue discussions, but warned that it would “respond with all measures at its disposal” if the UK pushed ahead with the new legislation. The leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, Jeffrey Donaldson, welcomed…