Northern Ireland is missing a dream opportunity to stand on its own two feet financially

The UK Government appears to be embarrassed by the fact that Northern Ireland has already outperformed GB economically over the last 12 months

Businesses in Northern Ireland see the opportunity from the protocol but will not be willing to invest while uncertainty hangs over it.

Deflection, distraction and disinformation. That is, what we have sadly come to expect, from the UK government. The “Brexit Freedoms” Bill is being introduced by the UK government with the claim that it will make it easier to amend “outdated EU law” and cut “£1 billion of red tape” for UK businesses.

What it doesn’t say on the label, is that the ‘outdated EU law’ is in fact an international contractual agreement that they negotiated and signed up to or that the “red tape” proposed to be cut, was UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s solution, to the Northern Irish post Brexit quandary. In simple terms the “Freedoms Bill” proposes to enable UK government ministers to repeal parts of the UK’s Withdrawal Agreement with the EU, to suit the UK.