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
agreement. laying the groundwork for today s agreement - - agreement. laughter jeering speak and my right honourable friends, the secretaries, for their perseverance in finally persuading the eu to do what it spent years refusing to do, to rewrite the treaty and replace it with a radical, . , , ., ., ~ radical, legally binding framework. toda s radical, legally binding framework. today s agreement radical, legally binding framework. today s agreement has radical, legally binding framework. today s agreement has three - radical, legally binding framework. l today s agreement has three equally important objectives. first, allowing trade to flow freely within our uk internal market, second, protecting northern ireland s place in our union and, third, safeguarding sovereignty and closing the democratic deficit. let me take eachin the democratic deficit. let me take each in turn. mr speaker, cor to the problems with the protocol was that he treated goods moving from great