Leader says party will vote against legislation but calls for ‘give and take’ from both EU and UK
A Labour government would repeal Boris Johnson’s legislation to override the Northern Ireland protocol if it passes, Keir Starmer has said on a visit to Belfast.
The Labour leader said his party would vote against the legislation, which is due to be published on Monday and would give ministers power to scrap parts of the protocol.
The move is facing opposition from the centrist One Nation wing of the Conservative party, as well as some hardliners on the Eurosceptic right, making it unclear whether Johnson will manage to get it through the Commons, let alone the House of Lords.
Starmer said if he gained power he would scrap the legislation entirely, while acknowledging there were “issues” with the protocol, which is blamed for slow movement of goods between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK since Brexit.
“We would scrap the legislation and I think there has been an impasse in the negotiations because we haven’t seen the high levels of trust that we need for negotiations like this, not least from our prime minister,” he told reporters in Belfast.
“But also we need give and take on both sides. The EU, as well as the UK … to be flexible about the approach. I do not think that the remaining issues of the protocol cannot be resolved with a different approach, with that high level of trust, with an honest broker prime minister getting people around the table and negotiating...
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