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
that this is probably as good as it gets, and that it decides to, i suppose, not necessarily access the windsor framework except the windsor framework except the windsor framework, but decide a twin track policy work decides to work stormont, and work what is most acceptable to it about the latest arrangements, and test out the so called stormont break by which it can object to any new european rules that it thinks will cause a wider divergence between great britain and northern ireland. that will be the hope, i think, northern ireland. that will be the hope, ithink, that northern ireland. that will be the hope, i think, that potentially some new legislation from westminster will be tied in, and then the economic incentive thatjoe biden was talking about regarding extra input and investment in northern ireland, that that can become a recipe that will tempt the politicians back to stormont, and put things back on the road there. here, instead, ithink put things back on t
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