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2021-03-05

Caroline Bell writing for Briefings for Britain reviews the state of the NI Protocol and the shenanigans taking place around it.

Things must be bad if Lord Frost is brought back into the frame! Perhaps his negotiated agreement suffers from the traditional "constructive ambiguity" so beloved of negotiators when the clock has stopped ticking . . .? Or perhaps in EU hands that becomes "destructive ambiguity"? We shall see, but the contrast between the UK-EU and the UK-US negotiations is striking.

"Hostages will be taken"

Does the EU want a trade deal or not? It might be thought that it has never negotiated for a trade deal, but always for keeping whatever control over the UK that it can retain.

Some might think that that amounts to negotiating in bad faith, since the UK has always been clear that it wants to negotiate trading terms, the negotiation of political control having been settled when we left the union.