I recognise the comments that the shadow Secretary of State has made about the Belfast agreement and the need for consensus. He is aware that there is not a consensus in support of the protocol; there never has been one, from day one, in Northern Ireland. I gave time—a lot of time—for the negotiations to progress, but that did not work because the EU fundamentally refuses to change the text of the protocol. If the shadow Secretary of State is serious about getting a solution that works, will he go to the EU and join the Government in making the argument that the EU needs to agree to a negotiation in which it is prepared to change the text of the protocol?
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Jeffrey M Donaldson
(Democratic Unionist Party)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 27 June 2022.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Northern Ireland Protocol Bill.
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