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Lord Frost again advocating acting unilaterally on NI Protocol

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  • There has been some focus on Lord Frost's tweets this morning (former Chief Negotiator of Task Force Europe). He is basically saying that the way the EU is implementing the rules is what is causing the problems - and that unless the EU considered another way of dealing with the implementation that the UK government would "have to act unilaterally." These comments follow an interview yesterday in which he said that the "EU doesn't understand history in Northern Ireland'". His tweets are below:
  • "The customs and regulatory border between us & the Republic has to be *somewhere*. But - and I repeat what we have said many times before: The border for legal purposes is not where the physical checks & processes have to take place."
  • "VAT & excise rates already vary between NI and Ireland (as do many many other rules), but no-one checks goods at the border. Other processes do the job & breaking the rules is to break the law."
  • "Similarly, last year we proposed that the legal customs border should be the international border between NI and the Republic, but that we would control in the Irish Sea goods going into the Republic, according to EU rules, for convenience's sake."
  • "The EU has refused to consider any other way of dealing with the problems both in 2019 and later. @MarosSefcovic says they won't change their approach. Unless they do, it seems inevitable that the UK Government @trussliz@FCDOGovUK will have to act unilaterally."
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