BBC News
By John Campbell
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Both the UK government and the EU must re-negotiate the Brexit deal because the Northern Ireland Protocol has not worked, the DUP leader has said.
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson was speaking after a virtual meeting with European Commission Vice-President Maros Šefčovič. My message was simple. The protocol has not worked, he said.
The Northern Ireland Protocol was agreed by the UK and EU to avoid a hard border in Ireland.
It does this by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU s single market for goods.
Unionists claim it undermines Northern Ireland s place in the UK.