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UK can override NI protocol, AG says

Will this be another ‘specific and limited’ breach of international law?

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Joshua Rozenberg
May 12, 2022
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The attorney general has advised the government that it would be legal for parliament to override the Northern Ireland protocol, The Times reports this morning:

Suella Braverman has advised that legislation to override the Northern Ireland protocol would be legal because the EU’s implementation of it is “disproportionate and unreasonable”.

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