EU or NI: which takes priority?

Everything you need to know about breaking international law

Is it lawful for parliament to override the Northern Ireland protocol, as the government seems to believe? Before answering that question, we should take look at the protocol itself. And before that, we should ask…

The Irish border

What is a protocol?

A protocol, in this sense, is an amendment or addition to an international treaty. For example, the European human rights convention, signed in 1950, has subsequently been updated with no fewer than 16 protocols. The term originally referred to a new first page glued to an existing document.