Lord Frost tells Lords Ctte that increased cross border trade in Ireland is ‘in many ways a problem’ & he doesn’t want to encourage more of it.
Pressed by the Ctte chair he says it’s a problem because it reflects the fact NI businesses are finding it more difficult to source goods from preferred GB suppliers.
Lord Frost asked the important question about what he means by consent outside of what’s in the actual treaty - this is something he talks about a lot. Not sure we got a completely coherent answer.
He says we need to look at consent ‘in the broadest possible sense’ that there are ‘different meanings to the word’ & that policies must have ‘the broad support of the governed.’
Perhaps worth noting that one of the cross-border bodies established by the GFA exists explicitly to encourage cross border trade & has been advising firms how to leverage the Protocol intertradeireland.com/corporate-info…
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