The government is planning to bring forward a bill to change the Northern Ireland protocol, according to foreign secretary Liz Truss in a statement to the House of Commons on 17 May. The aim of the bill is to ‘cement those provisions which are working in the Protocol, including the Common Travel Area, the Single Electricity Market and North-South cooperation, whilst fixing those elements that aren’t: on the movement of goods, goods regulation, VAT, subsidy control, and governance’.
Ms Truss made it clear that the door to a settlement with the EU is still open and the government will consult businesses and people in Northern Ireland on its proposals.
The government is planning to bring forward a bill to change the Northern Ireland protocol, according to foreign secretary Liz Truss in a statement to the House of Commons on 17 May. The aim of the bill is to ‘cement those provisions which are working in the Protocol, including the Common Travel Area, the Single Electricity Market and North-South cooperation, whilst fixing those elements that aren’t: on the movement of goods, goods regulation, VAT, subsidy control, and governance’.
Ms Truss made it clear that the door to a settlement with the EU is still open and the government will consult businesses and people in Northern Ireland on its proposals.
