In a letter seen by Express.co. After the resignation of Lord David Frost on Sunday, the Prime Minister, who has handed over responsibility for the negotiations with Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, admitted that talks over Northern Ireland were not close to reaching a resolution. As things stand, neither Northern Ireland nor the UK have a say on how EU legislation is imposed on Northern Ireland. The negotiations are not yet close to delivering results that can solve the problems presented by the Protocol. A constituent who wrote to the Prime Minister to put him on the spot over the Northern Ireland Protocol, the mechanism that seeks to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland by leaving Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods, said the response has left him concerned that Mr Johnson is ready to cave in and abandon Brexit completely. Dr Bradshaw, who is a theological lecturer and Anglican clergyman, contacted Mr Johnson via his parliamentary email address on December 17 to press him on the protocol. Critics claim that it has resulted in a hard border down the Irish Sea and are alarmed at the Government s apparent acceptance that the European Court of Justice ECJ has a role in settling disputes, something that was widely reported last week. He wrote: Does our Government not see the grotesque contradiction of giving military support to the EU states while the EU is waging war against Northern Ireland and annexing it economically? We are defending a hostile agency.
This is another example of Whitehall being subverted into an EU support mechanism, colluding with its plan to turn Northern Ireland into the next Kosovo. In his response to Dr Bradshaw's response on Tuesday December 21, Johnson said that the EU's proposals did not do enough to ease the burdens faced by people in Northern Ireland and would not create the conditions for genuinely cross-community support. Given the gravity and urgency of the difficulties, we have been prepared to consider an interim agreement as a first step to deal with the most acute problems, including trade frictions, subsidy control, and governance. JUST IN: Lord Frost predicted to plot to defeat Boris with Dominic Cummings at the end of the day.
Enough is enough Nadine Dorries booted from the Tory WhatsApp group INSIGHT Royal Family LIVE: Kate and William eye'renewed assault' on US LIVE BBC Weather: UK turns into 'battleground' as the Arctic air engulfs all FORECAST A solution needs to be found urgently early next year. We will continue to use the Article 16 safeguard mechanism if it is the only way to protect the prosperity and stability of Northern Ireland and its people as long as there is no agreed solution. As you may know, the negotiations will now be led by our new chief post-Brexit negotiator, Liz Truss, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs. The PM is betraying all his assurances to NI and caving in again, now that Frost has gone, and that is what it looks like to me. He said that this could mean we are returning to May's BRINO and abandoning Brexit if we refer to an acronym for Brexit in Name Only often applied to the withdrawal agreement negotiated by Mr Johnson's predecessor.
Despite the robust claims that the UK will use it as its conditions have been met, Article 16 is dead. Lord Frost previously announced plans for an interim deal a week ago, days before quitting his post. He said that his preference would be to find a comprehensive solution to deal with all the issues. Given the gravity and urgency of the difficulties, we have been prepared to consider an interim agreement as a first step to deal with the most acute problems, including trade frictions, subsidy control, and governance.