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Ben wright, is at westminster. let's ask the direct question, is there a prospect of this protocol issue being sorted this week? the word from issue being sorted this week? tue: word from downing issue being sorted this week? tte: word from downing street is that talks carry on. there is no deal yet. we have seen days of intense diplomacy, the prime minister dashing to belfast, meetings with eu leaders. momentum suggested a new agreement could be very close but now i don't think we are likely to see anything concrete before the middle of this week at the very earliest. it is worth remembering ...

Flexibility on vat with the european union test we would be negotiating. those aren't negotiating objectives, but i'm very proud that the labour party is the party that managed to negotiate the good friday agreement backin negotiate the good friday agreement back in 1998 that has given a generation of people peace in northern ireland. as we sit here today with the government behaving as it is, they can't even sit down in negotiation and agreement to get a prawn sandwich overseas. but negotiations _ a prawn sandwich overseas. but negotiations take time, and all the while there is talk going on,...

Agreement that the prime minister negotiated and fallen election on — and that the prime minister has lauded as a great deal. in doing that, seeking to override the agreement in this way simply shows that this is a government that cannot keep its word, it is a government that is posturing politically and is not actually sitting down and doing the hard graft that's necessary to get a solution to the northern ireland protocol issue. the solution to the northern ireland protocol issue. solution to the northern ireland rotocol issue. ., ., protocol issue. the government would sa the protocol iss...

Well, the foreign secretary, i think, is wrong to say that what the government is doing is necessary and that it government is doing is necessary and thatitis government is doing is necessary and that it is legal. in fact, what the government is doing is overwriting an agreement, an international agreement that the prime minister negotiated, the prime minister fought an election on and that the prime minister has lauded as a great deal and doing that, seeking to override that agreement in this way is simply showing that this is a government that cannot keep its word. it is a government that is...

Own party around his own leadership, don't forget, he stood for a no—confidence vote, just one week ago. that was in his own party. there is a frustration inside the eu that once again, uk domestic politics isn't coming into play here, in an international agreement and again, no appetite at all amongst eu leaders however to have a full—blown trade war with the uk, they have their hands more than a full with their own cost of living crises at the moment as well as the war in ukraine and the eu said this evening that it is a war that demands and where the eu wants to work together with the u...