UK Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson of taking a “wrecking ball” to relations with Ireland and the EU with his plan to unilaterally scrap aspects of the Northern Ireland Protocol.
The UK government announced last month that it would introduce new legislation overriding parts of the protocol, which is part of Britain’s post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union.
Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin warned this week that the move would represent a “historic low point” in Anglo–Irish relations.
On a visit to Dublin on Thursday, Starmer said, “Of course there are challenges with the protocol, but I think that we have faced much greater challenges than that in our shared history and I think we can deal with the remaining issues.”…