Northern Ireland Protocol: First Treasury Counsel Debate
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Baroness Altmann
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Northern Ireland Protocol: First Treasury Counsel
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Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con)
My Lords, once again, the Government are confident in their position that what they propose will not breach international law
Baroness Altmann (Con)
My Lords, I sympathise with my noble and learned friend the Minister, but I echo the concerns raised by my noble friend Lord Cormack and will ask a brief question. When the Prime Minister insisted that there would not need to be any checks between Northern Ireland and the rest of Great Britain on goods entering Northern Ireland, where did he expect those checks to take place?
Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con)
My Lords, the intention of the Government is to restore the situation envisaged at the framing of the protocol whereby equal importance was given to east-west and to north-south transactions.