Northern Ireland Protocol

Order. I want to make sure we get everybody in—this is a very important day. I call the Leader of...

I thank the Prime Minister for advance sight of his statement and for the briefing that I was giv...

I thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman for his comments and his support. I agree with the s...

Let me first associate myself with the remarks made by both my right hon. Friend the Prime Minist...

I thank my right hon. Friend, and join her in paying tribute to the Northern Ireland and Foreign ...

I call the Scottish National party spokesperson—sorry, leader.

I think I am the group leader, but I will take “spokesperson” as well.

Glass ceilings are t...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his support for the new agreement that we struck today, the Windso...

I call the Father of the House.

The Leader of the Opposition helpfully said that people in Northern Ireland might regard themselv...

I thank the Father of the House for his support and his observations. He is right about the agree...

On behalf of the Democratic Unionist party, I should like to add our voice in tribute to the late...

First, may I thank the right hon. Gentleman for the constructive engagement that I have had with ...

I call the Chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee.

My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and his ministerial colleagues have strained every sinew ...

My hon. Friend knows this subject well, and he is rightly passionate about it. I thank him for al...

I join others in paying tribute to our late, great Speaker, Betty Boothroyd. Like me, Mr Speaker,...

I am happy to give the right hon. Gentleman the assurance that we will continue to engage with al...

I join the tributes to John Caldwell, who was shot in front of his son while loading footballs in...

I pay tribute to my constituency neighbour not just for the job he did as Northern Ireland Secret...

I congratulate the negotiators on this very significant achievement. I also congratulate the Prim...

The right hon. Gentleman is right that we have had constructive and good negotiations with the Eu...

I start by unreservedly congratulating my right hon. Friend on what seems to be a spectacular neg...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his warm words, which mean a lot coming from a Brexiteer with su...

I associate myself with the remarks about Betty Boothroyd, and I join colleagues, particularly my...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his engagement with the Secretary of State and myself in recent we...

May I, too, send my best wishes to, and align myself with the comments of others about, detective...

I thank my right hon. Friend and pay tribute to him for the work he did on this topic in his role...

I welcome the fact that the document contains a number of references to the need for “cross-commu...

My approach, and indeed that of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, is to engage with al...

My right hon. Friend will know that, as ever, the devil lies in the detail of the papers that hav...

I thank my hon. Friend for the engagement he has had, with me in particular, and the advice he ha...

My party can give a broad welcome to this agreement. There are some positives in it that address ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for the engagement that he and his colleagues have had with me and the...

Let me say at the outset that our thoughts and prayers are with the police officer who was attack...

I am sure that the Bill did create the conditions for us to have the negotiation that we did, but...

As chair of the all-party group on Ireland and the Irish in Britain, I believe that, over the pas...

The Government are committed to all strands of the Belfast/Good Friday agreement. I have talked a...

Northern Ireland has a precious and integral place in the United Kingdom. It certainly seems to m...

I thank my right hon. Friend particularly for her support given her long-standing credentials in ...

I welcome the 18-minute confession that the Prime Minister undertook about the damage that the pr...

As the right hon. Gentleman knows well, the border posts are there to deal with checks in the red...

I thank the Prime Minister for his statement and for publishing both the White Paper and the lega...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his comments. I am pleased that we were able to publish all the ...

May I associate myself with the comments and sentiments that have been expressed to the families ...

The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill is passing separately to these arrangements, but...

May I associate myself with my right hon. Friend’s comments on Betty Boothroyd, who was my first ...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his comments and pay tribute to his service. I know that this is...

There is, of course, much to welcome in today’s statement, but I must press the Prime Minister on...

This is about ensuring the free flow of goods within our United Kingdom; that is what the green l...

Who will decide which EU laws will apply in Northern Ireland, and on what basis will they make th...

Going forward, when the Executive are up and running, as I hope very much they will be, it will b...

May I, too, add my sincere comments to those of others on the attempted murder of DCI Caldwell? H...

I join the hon. Gentleman in supporting our farmers, whether in Northern Ireland or, indeed, in Y...

I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement and commend him and his entire team on what the...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his support and also for his invaluable advice over the past few...

I echo the words of solidarity from many across the House for the Caldwell family and the Police ...

I thank the hon. Lady for her support and for the way in which she and her colleague the Member f...

May I congratulate my right hon. Friend and his whole negotiating team, whose quiet confidence an...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his support, which means a lot to me because the topic of Brexit...

Whatever disagreements we all have, it is good to hear the Prime Minister today paying respect to...

The UK is and will remain a member of the ECHR. Today’s agreement is about the Belfast/Good Frida...

I associate myself with my right hon. Friend’s comments concerning Betty Boothroyd and DCI Caldwe...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his support and for the advice that he has provided to me and th...

The right hon. Gentleman is my Prime Minister, so I say this with great respect: this is about mo...

I hope that the hon. Gentleman takes the time to study the deal in detail, and that he will see, ...

My right hon. Friend and the Government are to be warmly commended for their statecraft in achiev...

My right hon. and learned Friend makes an excellent point. He will remember that the Government h...

The Prime Minister is to be commended for tackling one aspect of the mess left behind by his pred...

Yes, as a simple matter of fact, the European Court of Justice is the final arbiter on matters of...

May I strongly welcome my right hon. Friend’s personal achievement—ably supported by the Foreign ...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his support. He is right to highlight the many areas of co-opera...

I associate myself with the remarks about the death of Baroness Boothroyd, as well as about DCI J...

That is exactly the point of the Stormont brake. It is based on the petition of concern mechanism...

May I join others in paying tribute to Betty Boothroyd, who was a wonderful Speaker and was very ...

I thank my right hon. and learned Friend for his chairmanship of the partnership from our side. H...

At the risk of adding to the sense of repetition this evening, let me say that this is all really...

I join the hon. Gentleman in paying tribute to my hon. Friend the Minister of State. He is absolu...

As a Member of this House who was born and raised in Omagh, may I send my love and prayers to DCI...

I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend for her work but also for her comments just now, which were...

I thank the Prime Minister and colleagues right across the House for their care and concern for D...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention and also for the engagement that he has had with ...

I congratulate the Prime Minister on an exceptional achievement, because we have resolved somethi...

I thank my hon. Friend for his warm words of support and assure him that the Foreign Secretary, i...

Although I welcome the progress that has been made today, the years wasted by recent Governments ...

I do believe that the new arrangement we have made—the Windsor framework—provides the basis for p...

In difficult negotiations, the late, great Ronald Reagan used to say, “Trust but verify,” which I...

This is incredibly important. What we should be focused on is Stormont being up and running. The ...

We welcome this, and I commend the achievement that helping mitigate the disaster has represented...

I just assure the hon. Gentleman that there is a well-defined process for the exercise of the Sto...

I am not sure that our opinion on mainland Britain is vital in all this. It is a pretty obvious p...

With the greatest respect, I would say to my right hon. Friend that this is also about the people...

This agreement is clearly welcome, but the Prime Minister must recognise that the Government’s ap...

No. It is that approach—talking about it in the hon. Lady’s terms—that creates the uncertainty. I...

Having spent two years at the Home Office working on the plans to implement the Northern Ireland ...

My hon. Friend makes an excellent point from his experience as a Home Office Minister. He is abso...

I join the tributes to the late Betty Boothroyd, and also to the outstanding bravery of DCI John ...

I would say to the hon. Gentleman that I have spent a lot of time, care and attention listening t...

First, I associate myself with the remarks of the Prime Minister about Detective Chief Inspector ...

Can I thank my hon. Friend for his support? It is an area that I know he knows well, and I can gi...

If I understand the so-called Stormont brake correctly, is it not the case that the Northern Irel...

I am glad that the hon. Gentleman has recognised how powerful the Stormont brake is. It is absolu...

I congratulate the Prime Minister on the progress he has made on what is a very difficult issue. ...

It will depend on what the manufacturer is producing. For a large chunk of manufacturing goods, t...

The Prime Minister gave a devastating critique of the Northern Ireland protocol, negotiated by hi...

As I have said, research co-operation is one of the many areas where we continue to co-operate wi...

South Leicestershire is home to one of the largest logistics parks in the whole of Europe. Will t...

I can give my hon. Friend that assurance. The smooth flow of trade around our UK internal market ...

Before I start, I would like to pass on my thoughts and prayers to DCI Caldwell’s family at this ...

On the hon. Gentleman’s last point, the whole point of the Stormont brake is that he does have co...

The Command Paper tells us that the framework,

“narrows the range of EU rules applicable in...

I am happy to look at that—I think that list already exists—but the key thing is exactly that: it...

The issues with the Northern Ireland protocol have damaged our communities, our economy and our d...

Just diverting slightly from the Northern Ireland protocol and the new Windsor framework, the Gov...

May I also pay my tribute to DCI John Caldwell and to his family? I hope he makes a good recovery...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and it is something that I know the Minister of State, Northe...

Can the Prime Minister be clear with the House that this agreement does not get us any closer to ...

They are two completely separate things. The Windsor framework is about resolving the issues with...

As a Northern Ireland Unionist family member, I wholeheartedly congratulate the Prime Minister an...

I agree with my hon. Friend about the importance of restoring power sharing and the institutions ...

May I welcome the change in approach, the co-operative spirit with which we have got to this poin...

I think that the issues we have seen over recent times have little to do with our institutional a...

This agreement is a remarkable negotiating success, with the EU agreeing to hitherto unique terms...

I thank my hon. Friend for those warm and, I fear, over-generous words. I thank him none the less...

The scrapping of tariffs on steel will be welcomed by steelworkers in the Port Talbot steelworks ...

The UK Government are also exploring mechanisms for a carbon border adjustment mechanism—it is so...

I congratulate my right hon. Friend on securing this historic deal, ensuring that our ongoing rel...

I thank my hon. Friend and wholeheartedly agree with him. This framework provides a positive basi...

This is certainly an entirely different definition of an “oven-ready” deal. Instead of being good...

The Windsor framework provides a legally sound sustainable basis on which to move forward. It bri...

I thank the Prime Minister for his commitment and hard work and for the constructive engagement w...

It is important that people have the time and space to consider that, but I hope we can move thro...

I thank the Prime Minister for spending more than two hours on this statement. I think we all kno...

I do not think the hon. Gentleman recognises the unique and specific circumstances of Northern Ir...

I join colleagues in expressing my thoughts for DCI Caldwell and his family.

This is a comp...

I thank my hon. Friend. He is right: there is a lot in the agreement. That is because it is a com...

I very much welcome the statement, in particular the sentence:

“we will take further steps ...

Actually, there are opportunities to do things differently across the UK to drive growth and pros...

I commend the Prime Minister for what he has achieved today. In 2016, if someone had said while w...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. He is right to take us all back some years and to ask what wo...

I very much welcome the Windsor framework, and I congratulate the Prime Minister and his team on ...

There was a lot in there. My hon. Friend is right that long-standing arrangements have been in pl...

The headlines of the Windsor framework make it clear that a great deal of progress has been made,...

My hon. Friend should recognise that we are talking about less than 3% of EU law. That law applie...

Last June I was pleased to speak in favour of and vote for the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill, be...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and he will have seen the note that we published from the Att...

I call the ever-patient Anthony Mangnall.

After all that has been said, I am not sure what I can ask that will be new, Mr Deputy Speaker. I...

That is an excellent note to end on. My hon. Friend is absolutely right. An enormous part of the ...

I thank the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition for their presence for over two and a...