Northern Ireland Protocol: Implementation Proposals Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Northern Ireland Protocol: Implementation Proposals

Lord Robathan Excerpts
Thursday 19th November 2020

(3 years, 11 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord True Portrait Lord True (Con)
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No, I do not. The maintenance of the Good Friday agreement requires unfettered access, which was committed to by the EU and in the reformation of the Northern Ireland Executive. So far as comparing the actions of the UK Government with those of communist China, I indignantly reject the parallel.

Lord Robathan Portrait Lord Robathan (Con) [V]
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My Lords, does Her Majesty’s Government consider that both sides in the negotiations regarding the protocol and the withdrawal agreement are acting in good faith? Would it not cause much greater harm to, and further undermine, the Belfast agreement if we were to separate Great Britain from Northern Ireland, contrary to the wishes, or without the consent, of all the people in Northern Ireland?