New post-Brexit deal agreed for Northern Ireland by UK and EU – BBC News

A very busy afternoon with developments regarding the Brexit talks and the trade

deal

with Northern Ireland, as you can see on the screen, a

deal

has been

agreed

according to our political editor Chris Mason Gita is in Windsor, where those conversations are taking place. place, she has all the latest developments, Gita, thank you very much, ben, yes, we know that she what she is doing like a daycare. Wonderland has been in the hotel behind us for some time, we understand a bit like a working lunch and they're going to We'll be having a press conference, uh, we know that, uh, yeah, Chris Mason heard a government spokesperson say that The deal had been closed.

Jess Parker also heard from sources in the EU that a deal had been struck. Richard Cena tweeted saying there will be a press conference which we believe will be in the next hour or so, keep watching and we will stream it to you live as soon as we can. We know that the leaders will have to leave here. It won't be in this place. It will also be nearby in Windsor. Will they name the agreement? The Windsor deal was speculation over the weekend, but we don't know the details or the content, they will still reveal it and the theater and the The optics of all this are going to be very important because we want him to soon be able to say that he has resolved a difficult issue that was initially opposed to Brexit.

Boris Johnson, of course, said that he had a deal ready, but of course, in This fact led to a number of difficulties, including the suspension of power sharing in Northern Ireland, let's look at this a little further. The professor of British and Irish politics at the University of Liverpool is John Tong. Thanks for his time. There has been a lot of speculation over the weekend. and today about what is in this agreement, what do you think of what you have seen and heard so far? Do you think it will make a big difference? Yes, this is a breakthrough because we have seen that this is not the old thing.

Oven ready protocol that when you evolve there are some very new ingredients in this, it is quite clear that the European Union has moved substantially, there are substantial changes to the original agreement in terms of state aid for Northern Ireland in terms of the volume of checks on merchandise. cross the IEC border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland only then can Michigan present this as a triumph in many ways and of course the fact that the leader of the opposition here, Stormer, has said he will support distributor Westminister means that can browse through Westminster the things we need to keep in mind for an hour are if any European MPS Rebel side research group doesn't seem like it remember that some of the former lunatics in that group are now Northern Ireland ministers and of course it has to happen the seven tests established by the dup;

Otherwise, if this deal does not lead to a restoration or transfer of power in Northern Ireland, we are just seeing some photos of the two leaders together, we hope they emerge and give a press conference. a little bit later today um I mean obviously the government will want to present this as a triumph, as a victory, the critics of Brexit, although they will say that where she stood up she was a supporter of Brexit, he is just solving a problem that they caused in the first place, well this was a The problem that needed to be solved would be the

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-premise diabolical relations between the United Kingdom and the European Union to the point where the British government, of course, presented that project of protocol law that Boris Johnson now supports and that undid Boris Johnson's own work by signing the original document. protocol agreement this modifies it substantially, it still allows you to still have a border in the Irish Sea, there will still be checks on goods going from one part of the UK to another, are you from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, but only in respect of those products that will then enter the EU single market, so there is a substantial commitment there and I think that was really the objective of the exercise.

I think Richardson's Law has probably gotten most of his party on his side with his favorable noises from most of his back. So far we know, but the DUP will reserve his position and will want to examine some fine print of this deal, so perhaps the champagne should be kept on ice for now and in terms of the deal. Real changes in trade, is there a degree of confidence on the part of the EU if we are looking at these two different lanes as has been described because obviously that border is important for entering the EU?

Yes, there was a breakthrough. a few weeks ago, when the United Kingdom and the European Union closed a data sharing agreement that allows them to jointly monitor trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland so that both can verify and ensure that the single market of the EU. between Great Britain and Northern Ireland do not secretly go to the EU single market because the European Union still wants to control those products, so in effect those green and red channels that were written in the protocol bill that was presented originally by Liz Truss when she was Foreign Secretary, to the surprise that those green and red channels remain, that's what the EU has signed up to now, so we can probably move away from all these arguments about cold REITs that don't are allowed between Great Britain and Northern Ireland or seed potatoes, should make trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland relatively fluid, allowing the DUP to perhaps introduce its own supporters who have helped protect the integrity of the UK domestic market, but that's really where the focus will be.

Can they sell the deal because we need the institutions to share the power of Ebola in Northern Ireland? But from a prime minister's point of view and from a European point of view, the political vehicle of the European Union, there will be enormous satisfaction today, Professor John. Tong thank you very much indeed