Image: Xinhua News Agency/PA Images Image: Xinhua News Agency/PA Images THE INTERNAL MARKET Bill arrived with a thud, but may have petered out of the headlines since, despite significant developments with it this week.
The UK has been harshly criticised by former British Prime ministers, EU figures, as well as senior US politicians for proposing a domestic bill that would break an international treaty . Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis admitted in the House of Commons that the bill “does break international law in a very specific and limited way”.
As Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Coveney said: “What is agreed in the Withdrawal Agreement and in the Protocol is that there will be limited checks on goods coming from GB into Northern Ireland, because there is an agreement to prevent the need for physical border infrastructure on the island of Ireland.”This week, MPs proposed amendments to the Internal Markets Bill. One, proposed by the British government’s backbench MPs, was passed.
Senior Tory MP Bob Neill, who led the threatened rebellion of Tory MPs who oppose the bill, said the new amendment, which would restrict the powers’ use, made “the best of a bad job”.
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