Downing Street has briefed the media that the British government is planning legislation purporting to give the UK the power to renege on the legally-binding Northern Ireland Brexit protocol.

Prime minister personifies British hostility to international democratic norms.

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The decision to breach trust again in relation to the Northern Ireland Protocol, by acting unilaterally rather than through the agreed joint procedures, was in obvious contradiction with Frost’s subsequent appeal for good will.

'while it is unlikely that the UK will rejoin the EU within a decade, it is equally unlikely that the issue will be not be firmly back on Britain’s political agenda within two decades. There are six reasons for this.'