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Good morning John

This week’s UK-EU summit agreement, whilst applying to all of the United Kingdom, will have a significant impact on Northern Ireland.

The Prime Minister has presented his agreement as a major step forward in re-setting and restoring better relationships between the UK and Brussels. On Tuesday my DUP colleagues and I questioned the Prime Minister in Parliament on the implications for Northern Ireland, and what he is doing to remove the Windsor Framework and free us from all remaining barriers to trade within our own country.

The DUP has always assessed developments in the relationship between the UK and EU through a simple lens: the Union and our place within it.

While this deal, particularly for food and plants, will have a significant impact on removing barriers there remains a series of other areas where EU rules negatively impact trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This agreement, or roadmap for further talks, still falls short of tackling the core issues imbedded through the Windsor Framework. We seek further meaningful progress on removing barriers between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, such as in customs, manufacturing, product standards and the looming threat to the supply of veterinary medicines into Northern Ireland.

We will again be urging the Government to halt the construction of border control posts at our ports and the associated wasteful and unnecessary spending on them. These are structures that only entrench division and give physical form to the very barriers within the United Kingdom internal market we want to see removed once and for all. It is becoming clear that if the Prime Minister pursues the direction of travel he has outlined then there can be no reason to have them.
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Ultimately, we will continue to campaign to have the source of these problems removed – namely the removal of the application of EU from Northern Ireland. This was a decision taken by the previous Conservative Government, in our own United Kingdom Parliament, to impose these arrangements on Northern Ireland and it is only through Parliament that they can ultimately be changed. I am pleased that across all parts of our society and in Parliament there is an increasing focus on the need to free all of the United Kingdom from red-tape and bureaucracy – much of which was dumped on Northern Ireland specifically by a Tory Government – but there is more to do.

For our part we are determined to campaign to ensure Northern Ireland is high up the agenda, that we are delivering for Northern Ireland and what is delivered benefits all our constituents.

Yours faithfully,

Rt Hon Gavin Robinson MP

DUP Leader


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