Holyrood blasts Northern Ireland Protocol changes as ‘unthinkable’

Neil Gray, Holyrood’s minister for Europe, has written to the foreign secretary asking for urgent discussions on reports UK ministers are preparing legislation giving them sweeping powers to unilaterally suspend elements of the Northern Ireland Protocol in the Withdrawal Agreement (Fraser Bremner/PA)

A Scottish Government minister said any Westminster move to tear up a deal with the EU governing post-Brexit trading agreements with Northern Ireland would be “unthinkable”.

Neil Gray, Holyrood’s minister for Europe, has written to the British Foreign Secretary asking for urgent talks on reports UK ministers are preparing legislation giving them sweeping powers to unilaterally suspend elements of the Northern Ireland Protocol in the Withdrawal Agreement.