The Foreign Secretary is expected to set out plans for legislation to rewrite the Northern Ireland Protocol on Tuesday.
Speaking to broadcasters during a visit to Northern Ireland on Monday, Boris Johnson said the UK needs to “proceed with a legislative solution” to the protocol as an “insurance” in case a deal is not reached with Brussels.
But the prime minister said his government do not want to get rid of the protocol, adding: “We don’t want to scrap it. But we think it can be fixed.”
Mr Johnson said he would “love” for tensions over the arrangement to be ironed out “in a consensual way with our friends and partners” in the EU.
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But he noted that the UK also needs the “insurance” of a “legislative solution at the same time”.
The row over the mechanism has created an impasse in efforts to form a new executive in Stormont, with the Democratic Unionist Party refusing to join a new administration unless…
