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He said: “We will do everything we need to do, whether legislatively or indeed by triggering Article 16 of the protocol, to ensure that there is no barrier down the Irish Sea.
It also comes as the European Commission is now expecting permanent post-Brexit border control posts to be ready in Northern Ireland by the middle of this year.
Commission spokesman Daniel Ferrie claimed the UK had obligations to meet under the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Mr Ferrie said: We have received reassurances that these announcements last week are not going to affect the current work of the temporary border control posts in Northern Ireland, so the relevant checks and controls are continuing to take place as usual.