What is the Northern Ireland Protocol? Foreign Secretary Liz Truss leaving 10 Downing Street, London, following a Cabinet meeting. An arrangement governing trade across the Irish Sea post-Brexit.

The European Union and the United Kingdom continue to be at loggerheads over the Northern Ireland Protocol, the most contentious element of the Brexit agreement. In the latest twist of the ...

It is a consequence of the protocol, the Northern Ireland Brexit deal agreed by the UK and EU. It leaves Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods, a market which includes medicines ...

Britain and the European Union are working to agree post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is a British-ruled province and part of the United Kingdom that shares a ...

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 ...

The Northern Ireland protocol has returned, and yet again, it is threatening the relationship between the UK and the EU. Both sides are locking horns over how to resolve this crisis which could see ...

In the days since the Northern Ireland election, the UK Government has made clear that it is willing to imminently take unilateral action that would scrap or override parts of the protocol.

Irwin Armstrong, a former chair of Boris Johnson's Conservative Party in Northern Ireland, has a simple message for the British Prime Minister when it comes to the province's unique post-Brexit trade ...

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A dispute over the Northern Ireland protocol, which stems from Britain's Jan. 1 exit from the EU's orbit, threatens to reopen a rift that bedevilled years of Brexit talks.

The protocol also sees Northern Ireland follow certain EU rules on state aid and VAT on goods. – Is the protocol fully operational?

Northern Ireland remains in the EU single market for goods. The region also applies EU customs rules at its ports, even though it is still part of the UK customs territory.