Triggering Article 16 will create poisonous instability, warns UK Labour Party

Louise Haigh with Professor Richard English, at the George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice (Jonathan McCambridge/PA)

The UK Labour Party has warned the British Government against invoking Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol, saying that it would provoke “further poisonous instability”.

In a speech in Belfast, the UK's shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Louise Haigh also cautioned against the dangers of a “damaging trade dispute” between the UK and the EU.