Breaking: Speculation increases that the U.K. government is going to unilaterally attempt to alter the Northern Ireland Protocol as early as July to suit its own agenda. However it is not in the remit of the NI Secretary of State, Brandon Lewis or the PM, Boris Johnson to do so!
The fact remains that the NI Protocol is the product of a Bilateral International Treaty and no single party to that agreement has any legal right under international law to do so. To do so unilaterally within be an act of bad faith which could jeopardise the entire deal. 🇪🇺🇬🇧
This is another example of the deliberate moves being played on the British side to change the rules as they see fit. Other examples were trying to negotiate with individual member states of the EU rather than the EU as a whole and the EU commission which acts on their behalf.
Such actions by the U.K. government only serves to raise its profile as a lawless or rogue state that refuses to accept the ground rules it has signed up to previously and augers badly for reaching future agreed progress that both sides can live with!
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