Ex-DUP deputy leader demands list of EU laws to be scrapped in Northern Ireland

Ex-DUP deputy leader demands list of EU laws to be scrapped in Northern Ireland

Nigel Dodds (Liam McBurney/PA)

Former DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds has demanded that the UK government release a full list of the EU laws to be scrapped in Northern Ireland as part of the new Windsor Framework.

The unionist peer said that, if the government refuses to release this list, there is a “danger” that people will believe this is because the “vast bulk” of laws applying to the EU single market and customs union will remain in effect in Northern Ireland.

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