UK ministers push ahead with plans to tear up post-Brexit trade deal

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Any hopes that a new PM would try to re-build relations with the EU and honour Johnson's "oven ready deal" seem misplaced:

Ministers will push ahead with legislation to rip up Boris Johnson’s post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland on Wednesday with no sign that any of the Tory leadership contenders plans to stop it.

The bill, which begins line-by-line scrutiny before passing to the House of Lords, has poisoned relations with the EU, raising fears of a trade war and the prospect of British scientists being excluded from a €95bn research programme.

The row over the so-called Northern Ireland Protocol, which has brought local politics in the region to a standstill, loomed over the bonfires and parades held annually by unionists and loyalists on July 11-12 in celebration of their UK identity.

UK ministers push ahead with plans to tear up post-Brexit trade deal | Financial Times (archive.ph)

Edited July 13, 2022 by The Silver Shroud