Government plans allowing ministers powers to override parts of the post-Brexit deal on Northern Ireland could become law “fairly rapidly”, Boris Johnson has suggested.
MPs are set to vote on the controversial new legislation – which contains measures to remove checks on goods and animal and plant products travelling from Great Britain to Northern Ireland – on Monday.
Speaking ahead of the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill’s second reading in the Commons, the prime minister told broadcasters that, parliament willing, the legislation could be enacted “very fast”.
“What we are trying to do is fix something that I think is very important to our country, which is the balance of the Belfast Good Friday Agreement,” he told reporters at the G7 Summit in Germany.
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