stable agreement which works for all parts of the uk and i wish the uk government well in that but with the crisis in ukraine the last thing we need to be doing a thrashing around here pointlessly. domestic legislation even if passed will not wash away the need to comply with an international commitment already made and neither is it going to change the fact that if the uk is neither in or aligned with the single market in the customs union it is still going to create a trade border that needs to go some way. to restore devolved government in northern ireland and to resolve the self inflicted wounds of brexit it going to need goodwill, trust and a negotiated settlement. i m sorry to say that the threats of unilateral legislative action by this government override its own deal very unlikely to be taken seriously in belfast, they won t be taken seriously in brussels and there is no reason why they should be taken seriously in this place either. i have been very clear that we ar
with is not to do with the protocol only made necessary by the kind of brexit the government eventually negotiated, the very nature of that that contained the seeds of the problem. i do not delight for one moment and neither do my colleagues the hurt and upset caused by many to northern ireland by the protocol. let s not forget that scotland and northern ireland as a whole both voted against brexit and there was naught cross union consent. if the consequences of that deal are judged to not be working in the best interests of the people of northern ireland, we need mr speaker to also be honest and recognise the consequence of the entire withdrawal agreement are not working in the interest of anywhere else in the uk other. getting brexit done has great punishment meant creating projects. it is an absolute free sta ble