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Brexit negotiator Lord Frost believes current arrangements for Northern Ireland can’t last. The Irish Sea border is a virus that can eat away indefinitely at our Union with Great Britain

Owen Polley: Landmark Brexit anniversary is reminder that NI was left behind

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A poem to mark 5 years of the Irish Sea border

Frost and ice can form overnight and linger in shaded areas long after the rest of the garden has thawed

Hard surfaces and slip hazards: keeping your garden safe this winter

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds a Q&A session with local business leaders during a visit to Coca-Cola HBC in Lisburn, Co Antrim in February 2023. Mr Sunak was visiting Northern Ireland to sell the Windsor Framework deal secured with the European Union

The EU has never been interested in solving Northern Ireland's problems

It was Boris Johnson who eventually agreed to the Irish Sea border and implemented it. Pro-Union politicians here have reacted relatively timidly to a serious and unnecessary dilution of their British status

Owen Polley: Unionists are certainly not wallowing in self-pity

Conservative peer Lord Frost says a new government Bill enables ministers to ensure UK regulations automatically follow changes in EU law, which “amounts to dynamic alignment”. Photo: Maja Smiejkowska/PA Wire

New laws could ease sea border friction

Lord Frost

New product safety bill will see Labour revive EU alignment Lord Frost warns

The PSNI arrested a man and a woman in relation to abortion clinic Safe Access Zones at Causeway Hospital in October 2023. A friend of the woman said she is a devout Catholic and can be seen kneeling in prayer with her rosary beads while an officer speaks to her.

Church leader: 'Criminalising silent prayer akin to thought crime'

The UK and the EU would agree to police each other’s regulations. It’s a great pity that the party did not make this choice earlier and instead championed the Safeguarding the Union deal

Owen Polley: It's welcome that DUP backs mutual enforcement, but too late

Lord Frost (first in line, left, looking at the camera) meeting with EU Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič (his counterpart to the right) in 2021 in London

UK former Brexit chief accuses Ireland of 'doublethink' on immigration

The DUP is currently negotiating with Westminster about the future of the Executive. Westminster needs to spend vastly more money to help NI producers to get their products to the GB market, writes John Gemmell

Letter: New mindset needed to grow GB-NI trade

The detail of any deal with the UK government to restore Stormont is not known. One thing is clear though - there will be no abolition of the primacy of EU law for swathes of the Northern Ireland economy, that has not even been a matter of negotiation since the Windsor Framework

Ben Lowry: Divide within DUP over primacy of EU law in NI has come to fore

Yellow weather warning issued

Another yellow weather warning issued for NI as cold weather continues

NI's ex first minister Arlene Foster speaks as Margaret Thatcher at a balloon debate at Policy Exchange room at the Conservative Party conference at Manchester on Tuesday October 3 2023. She won the debate against panellists including Lord Frost, left, as Ronald Reagan and Michael Gove, right, as Teddy Roosevelt

Foster wins good humoured balloon debate at Tory conference

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday. His government replaced eurosceptic Tory committee members so he could pass his NI parcel rules under the Windsor Framework. Picture: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA Wire

Owen Polley: No unionist saviour set to emerge from Tory infighting

Former Brexit negotiator Lord Frost said ‘in time’ a referendum would be needed on the Windsor Framework and NI Protocol

Former Brexit negotiator Lord Frost suggests UK-wide vote on NI Protocol deal
Former Brexit negotiator Lord Frost has praised Boris Johnson's “firmness” on Brexit, as he floated the possibility of a future referendum on Rishi Sunak's deal on the Northern Ireland Protocol.
By Dominic McGrath, PA Political Staff

James Cleverly in Belfast in 2019. Now foreign secretary, he has indicated that ‘Not for EU’ labels would be needed for food products across the UK. But DEFRA advice suggested that, for the first year at least, labelling will be required exclusively for goods coming to NI. Requirements for ‘box labels and retail premises signage’ will only ever apply here. A subtlety that was not part of the government’s spin. Picture: Arthur Allison / Pacemaker Press.

Owen Polley: We shouldn’t forget the magnitude of what has been imposed on NI

The Met Office is warning of cold temperatures

UK to get Arctic blast as Met Office warns frost and cold to return

TUV leader Jim Allister said the troubles in the SNP were "a gift to unionists".
Photo by Stephen Hamilton / Press Eye.

Troubles in Scottish National Party are 'a gift to unionists' says TUV

It would be pathetic to see unionists go back to the assembly with their tails between their legs having achieved little in the returning of sovereignty. It is clear that the revised protocol does not go near meeting the DUP’s seven tests

Letter: Ben Lowry is wrong to say that unionists should return to Stormont

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson (DUP), Billy Hutchinson (Progressive Party), Doug Beattie (Ulster Unionist Party) and Jim Allister (Traditional Unionist Voice) pictured at Stormont, on September 28 2021 in a joint stand against the NI Protocol. Samuel Morrison writes: "I hope I will be proved wrong and we will end on a final scene with all unionists still united behind our solemn pledge to the people of Ulster Day 2022. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Samuel Morrison: I recall St Andrews so feel I have seen this DUP movie before

Sinn Fein Leader Mary Lou McDonald, former leader Gerry Adams and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill at the funeral of the IRA terrorist Bobby Storey in west Belfast. The lockdown breaching funeral, which happened without any sanction, showed that Sinn Fein is allowed to have special influence. Photo Pacemaker Press

Ben Lowry: Unionists have not been alone in not wanting Sinn Fein at the helm

Lord Frost (pictured at an event hosted by think-tank Policy Exchange)

'GB citizens would not accept what is being demanded of Northern Ireland'

Boris Johnson with Nigel Dodds and Arlene Foster at the 2018 DUP conference where he said he would oppose an Irish Sea border. But Mr Johnson’s later NI Protocol Bill added to the recent pressure exerted on the EU by the DUP. Picture: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press

EU has not given up control over NI economy but DUP might be best to go back

Lord David Frost, Minister of State at the Cabinet Office, speaks during the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. Picture date: Monday October 4, 2021.

Brexit deal: UK government denies that its Protocol Bill was always a bluff

Lord David Frost, Minister of State at the Cabinet Office, speaks during the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. Picture date: Monday October 4, 2021.

Ex-negotiator Lord Frost says UK/EU deal keeps Protocol intact

Is EU law removed in any way from Northern Ireland? Does Westminster get the legally assured right to change VAT rates in NI or to set up freeports like those in GB. Photo: Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA Wire

Lord Frost: Here are some tests that should be met before backing protocol deal
This article was published as a series of tweets yesterday by the former Brexit negotiator, David Frost in response to a journalist on The Sun Harry Cole reporting that Rishi Sunak was claiming that EU law would be disapplied for most GB-NI trade movements.
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UK weather forecast: temperatures set to drop to lows of -1C

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris (left) and his garrulous minister of state, Steve Baker, have spent months reprimanding the DUP for its decision to collapse the executive. They seem convinced that the people of Northern Ireland are desperate for power-sharing to return

Owen Polley: NIO pair not the first to talk up their unionism, then not deliver

Lord Frost at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham yesterday. He said the UK must be clear to the EU that there can only be one outcome from talks, a shift of trade for Northern Ireland back to the United Kingdom. Photo: Aaron Chown/PA

Northern Ireland trade must return back towards the UK, says former minister

Liz Truss with Matthew Robinson, chair of the Northern Ireland Conservatives at last night’s reception in Birmingham held by Tories from the province. The prime minister said little of substance about the NI Protocol

Prime minister Truss offers little comfort to unionists at Tory event over NI

News Letter editorial

The last thing Northern Ireland needs now is a weak and naive prime minister

Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee, announces the results of the second ballot round in the Conservative Party leadership contest, in the Houses of Parliament, on Thursday. Suella Braverman has been eliminated. Photo: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire

Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt pull ahead in latest round of Tory leader race

Lord Frost

Lord Frost: Impact of Brexit may never be known

Lord Frost

Problems of Northern Ireland Protocol stem from UK ‘weakness’, says Frost

Ben Habib is a former Brexit Party MEP

There isn’t even a real threat of unilateral action on protocol

An anti-protocol placard at Port of Larne

Economic impact of Protocol ‘could justify unilateral action’, says think tank

Lord Frost denied claims by Micheal Martin that he ‘wrecked’ talks last year

Lord Frost rubbishes Micheal Martin claim he ‘torpedoed’ proposed resolution

Sinn Fein are a cancer corrupting Ireland, as are any other parties or independents who justify terrorism of any stripe, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Vote down the ballot for the good guys so that SF lose

News Letter editorial

Welcome Lord Frost speech contrasts with ex civil servant’s essay

Former Brexit minister and UK chief negotiator Lord Frost gives a Policy Exchange talk titled 'The Northern Ireland Protocol: How we got here - and what should happen now?

NI Protocol has put Belfast Agreement on life support, says Lord Frost

Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz (L) and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) make their way down Downing Street on Friday April 8, 2022. The UK PM did not rule out triggering Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol

Ben Lowry: Even if Art 16 isn’t triggered UK knows protocol is a huge problem

Letter to the editor

The Ulster Unionist Party should admit the failure of 1998 Belfast Agreement

Liz Truss’s predecessor as protocol negotiator said the UK would be unable to send NI aid such as Covid support. Ms Truss says these concerns remain

Lord Dodds: Northern Ireland will miss out on flexible UK approach to state aid

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss

Truss aiming for free flow of goods from GB

Irish deputy premier Leo Varadkar and foreign minister Simon Coveney

Protocol latest: After months of unmet timelines from DUP, Coveney sets his own

EU Commissioner Mairead McGuinness

Dispute needs settled before poll: EU chief

Tina McKenzie, Policy Chair of FSB NI

January 2022 and still looking for clarity

EU ambassador to the UK João Vale de Almeida

EU ‘not too impressed’ with Article 16 threat

UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss

EU unimpressed over Liz Truss’s post-Brexit threats on NI

Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the foreign secretary Liz Truss said it is her “absolute priority” to resolve the “unintended consequences” created by the protocol to maintain peace in Northern Ireland

UK will trigger Article 16 if NI Protocol talks fail, says Liz Truss

EU Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic speaking at Europe House in Westminster, London after a meeting at Lancaster House in London, the fourth meeting to be held to attempt to resolve issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol. Picture date: Friday November 12, 2021.

UK breached a great deal of trust over Protocol: Sefcovic

Liz Truss is a determined woman who won’t have taken much festive break. Hopefully top of her civil service reading papers over the holiday period was the Belfast Agreement

Baroness Hoey: I expect that Liz Truss will know that the NI Protocol must go

Tim McGarry, who writes a column for the News Letter every other Thursday

Tim McGarry: 2021 started poorly, dipped in the middle, then ended very badly

New Brexit minister Liz Truss

Unionists demand action not ‘soothing words’ from Truss on Protocol

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