with permission, mr speaker, i would like to make a seven on the northern ireland protocol. after weeks of negotiations, today we have made a decisive breakthrough. the windsor framework delivers free floating trade within the whole night kingdom. it protects northern ireland s place in our union and it safeguards sovereignty for the people of northern ireland. by achieving all this, it preserves the delicate balance inherent in the belfast good friday agreement. mr speaker, does what many said could not be done. removing thousands of pages of eu laws and making permanent weekly binding changes to the protocol treaty itself. that is the protocol treaty itself. that is the breakthrough we have made, those are the changes we will deliver, now is the time to move forward as one united kingdom. mr speaker, before i turn to the details, let us remind ourselves why this matters. it matters because at the heart of the belfast good friday agreement and the reason it has endured for a
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illuminating the democratic deficit. eliminating. in a mentally, the protocol meant the eu could impose new laws on the people of northern ireland without them having a say. i know some members of this house whose voices i deeply respect say that eu laws should have no role whatsoever in northern ireland. i understand that view. i am so pathetic to it. but for as long as the people of northern ireland synthetic to it, but as long as the people northern ireland support the businesses having access to the eu market and if we want to avoid a hard border between northern ireland and ireland as we all do, then there will be some role for eu law full subsidy question is, what is the absolute minimum amount necessary to avoid a hard border? today s agreements scraps 1700 pages of eu
would ever consider it. but the stormont break has been introduced by fundamentally rewriting the treaty. specifically the provisions relating to dynamic alignment. that is a permanent change. it ends the automatic ratchet of eu law and if the veto is used, the european courts can never overturn our decision. and the eu have also explicitly accepted an important principle in the political declaration. it is there in black and white that the treaty is subject to the vienna convention. this means that unequivocally the legal basis for the windsor framework is in international law. i would like to thank my right honourable friend for his support in negotiating this point. and it puts beyond all doubt that we have now taken back control. mr speaker, mr speaker, from the