Stormont brake
Not to be pulled except in an emergency
An emergency brake won’t stop a train unless it’s moving. And the Stormont brake in the new Windsor framework won’t have any effect until the Northern Ireland legislative assembly gets going again.
Will the prospect of blocking new EU legislation encourage the Democratic Unionist Party to take its place in the Northern Ireland executive? We shall see. Wh…
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