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It, we don't like it. then they started negotiating with the eu to get some tweaks and the eu put forward a big package of proposals last october, which are still very much within the rules of the protocol butjust applying it in a lighter touch way. still not enough for the uk, so the negotiations continued. it is absolutely not enough for the dup who are refusing to go into the power—sharing government in northern ireland unless the protocol is entirely scrapped, so that is why it is an issue now and it is an issue today because the foreign secretary had a virtual meeting with her opposite ...

Between northern ireland and ireland, to preserve the peace process. the way this protocol was designed is that lots of the rules of the eu single market applied to the trade in goods between great britain and northern ireland, lots of eu laws still apply. that means you have checks on goods crossing the irish sea, which the uk government says, "hang on, that is like carving up the internal market of the uk." so all along, the uk have been saying, "we have got to change this, we have got to change it, we don't like it." then they started negotiating with the eu to get some tweaks, the eu put f...