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Frost Demands 'Not Role For ECJ As Final Arbiter' In NI Protocol Talks

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Cabinet Office minister Lord Frost speaking to the House of Commons European Scrutiny select committee. Link to stream can be found here.

  • Joe Barnes at the Daily Telegraph tweets: "Appearing before the Commons' EU Scrutiny Committee, David Frost says he's 'not interested in arrangements that keep the [ECJ] in place with some other name for it' in a new governance system for the Northern Ireland Protocol. Frost, the UK's Brexit negotiator, sets out that he wants to see an 'arbitration mechanism', similar to the one in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, to resolve disputes over the protocol to avoid a hard border. 'No role for the court of the final arbiter of disputes,' Lord Frost adds"
  • Should be noted that Frost did not say there would be no role at all for the ECJ, but just that not as an arbiter.
  • Frost: 'Gaps between us [EU and UK] remain significant'

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