The failure to reach a 🇪🇺🇬🇧 post-#Brexit deal will place enormous strains on Northern Ireland and on how communities relate with one another within Northern Ireland, between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and between Northern Ireland and Great Britain. While the recent 🇬🇧🇪🇺 agreement on how the #Brexit Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland will be implemented is to be welcomed, particularly in terms of the movement of GB-NI goods, the relief it affords will be critically undermined without a deal on UK-EU future relations.

Confirmation from UK Government of the £400m package to support Northern Ireland businesses as #Brexit transition period ends and Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland comes into effect on 1st January 2021. 1/4 ⬇️

https://twitter.com/NIOgov/status/1337009530308268033

Emphasis from UK Gov on the "New Deal" is on business and economic development, although there is also a commitment to: "invest in social development across Northern Ireland, strengthening social cohesion and building stronger, safer communities" bit.ly/2KbRyP7 2/4

Looking through new #Brexit deal, the preamble has lost some of the paragraphs in the previous #WithdrawalAgreement from April 2019 👇

https://twitter.com/DanielFerrie/status/1184771654574116864

Here's the addition in the preamble to the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in the new #Brexit #WithdrawalAgreement that refers to democratic consent from NI for application of EU law. 👇