The fresh plan to address issues in Northern Ireland will be officially approved by officials in London today - but unionist MPs have not given the plan its support.
- designed to address problems with the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol - was agreed by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen last month.earlier this week by a large margin after a vote on one of its elements - the Stormont brake - as well as getting the nod from the Council of the EU.
The Stormont brake is a mechanism that aims to allow assembly members to flag their concerns about changes to or introductions of new EU legislation that will affect the region, giving the UK government the option to veto them. The DUP and some prominent Tory Brexiteers - including Boris Johnson and Liz Truss - voted against the deal, saying they still had concerns about EU law taking precedence in Northern Ireland.
DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson - whose party has refused to form an executive in Northern Ireland until the protocol, negotiated by Mr Johnson, was ditched - has said the new policy is unlikely to lead his party back into a power-sharing agreement in Stormont. However, in a release ahead of the meeting, the government said the UK and EU had"fundamentally changed the old protocol, fixing the practical problems and securing a new way forward for a prosperous, stable future for Northern Ireland".
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