BBC News Published image copyrightLiam McBurney/PA Wire image captionThe Westminster government and the EU both want work to progress on creating permanent border control posts at NI ports The UK agriculture secretary has told his Stormont counterpart Edwin Poots to progress new border control posts (BCPs) "without delay". The BCPs at Northern Ireland's ports, which are used to check products arriving from Great Britain, are a requirement of the Brexit deal. They are currently operating from temporary facilities. However, the EU said work needs to begin urgently on permanent premises. Stormont's Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots, from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), has been resisting this but the UK government has said the work must be done.