Maros Sefcovic has accused the UK of breaking international law (Image: GETTY)
Speaking yesterday, European Commission spokesman Eric Mamer said: To be crystal clear, there are practical steps which the United Kingdom is supposed to implement that are related to the agreements that we found in December. And if people are talking about us trying to find an agreement on prolonging the grace periods, which must be a joint decision, a joint decision in the context of the joint committee, the UK also has to do its homework on those practical steps that it has to implement, that it should have implemented already some time ago for some of them and that it has committed to be delivering, to deliver very quickly on the others.
Turning his attention to the current occupant of Number Ten, Mr Habib added: “Boris Johnson has not been any better.
“He did not challenge the false narrative, reaffirmed it and put a border down the Irish Sea, leaving Northern Ireland behind.
“Even though writing in the Telegraph on September 12 last year he confessed he had agreed the Protocol with one arm tied behind his back and that it threatened the fabric of the country, he nevertheless implemented it.”
Mr Habib said he first called for the repudiation of the Protocol on March 7, 2020 at a speech he had given to the Bruges Group think tank, and had since commented on numerous occasions, including one article in which he accused Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Michael Gove of misleading the Lords EU Select Committee on the subject.
THE EU s determination to punish the UK for Brexit has been underlined by the publication of research indicating the EU currently has 136 legal cases pending - including 46 launched SINCE Britain quit the bloc.