NORTHERN IRELAND’S DUP STRIKES DEAL TO RETURN TO POWER-SHARING GOVERNMENT It reached a deal with the British government on post-Brexit trade rules
The leader of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Jeffrey Donaldson said it reached a deal with the British government on the operation of post-Brexit trade rules that would allow the party to return to the region’s power-sharing government.
Northern Ireland has been without a devolved government for almost two years after the DUP walked out in protest over the trade rules, which it said created barriers with the rest of the United Kingdom and undermined Northern Ireland’s place in it.
Speaking at a press conference in the early hours of Tuesday morning, Donaldson said the measures, which will be underpinned by new UK laws, will remove checks for goods moving within the UK and remaining in Northern Ireland and guarantee unfettered access for Northern Ireland businesses to the UK market.
He said London would publish details of the deal in due course and that he believed it could move quickly to enable the DUP to take its place back in Belfast’s Stormont Assembly.
