The UK has “legitimate concerns” about the Protocol, said Anand Menon and Jill Rutter in The Guardian. It has caused genuine difficulties, both for Northern Ireland’s trade and for its politics.

Then-PM Johnson suggested the protocol. This would involve putting a trade border down the Irish Sea between Northern Ireland and Britain. Goods would be able to pass over the Irish border with ease ...

To avoid this, the EU and the UK negotiated the protocol. It placed Northern Ireland within the EU internal market for goods, which meant it had to comply with EU customs rules.

Latest Videos From The Week Unilateral action The Northern Ireland Protocol, which was agreed as part of the Brexit deal, works by keeping Northern Ireland inside the EU’s single market for goods.

In their call, Johnson "explained that the Protocol was failing to deliver on many of its intended objectives: to minimise disruption to everyday lives, to respect Northern Ireland’s integral ...

The FINANCIAL — The Northern Ireland Protocol sets out Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit relationship with both the EU and Great Britain. It is part of the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement, the ...

(Bloomberg) -- The Northern Ireland Protocol is valid and drawn up in line with UK legislation, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday in a boost to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s embattled ...

It stems from the fact that Ireland remains part of the European Union but Northern Ireland no longer is — and yet the two parts of the island are bound by trade and a 25-year-old peace treaty ...

The Northern Ireland Protocol remains unresolved as Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris’ U-turn on new Assembly elections has lost him credibility.

May 18, 2022 The Northern Ireland Protocol is in Tatters Kenneth Surin Photograph Source: Sinn Féin – Protest at Boris Johnson visit – CC BY 2.0 ...

Speculation is increasing that the UK will trigger Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol in the coming weeks, if not days and that the EU is hurriedly preparing its response.