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PM: Our Actions On NI Protocol 'Lawful And Right'

UK

Wires and social media reporting comments from Prime Minister Boris Johnson following talks with the leadership of the Democratic Unionist Party and First Minister Arlene Foster on a visit to Northern Ireland.

  • PM says 'we believe our actions on the [NI] protocol are lawful and right'.
  • On protocol: 'there has to be east/west consent as well as north/south consent'.
  • These comments are unlikely to go down well in Brussels, which remains on the verge of launching legal action against the UK for its unilateral extension of grace periods to avoid checks on food exports from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.

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