NI Protocol bill will restore region’s place within UK, says Donaldson

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA

Government legislation to empower ministers to scrap the bulk of Brexit’s Northern Ireland Protocol will restore the region’s place within the UK, the leader of the DUP has said.

Giving his assessment of the contentious Bill, Jeffrey Donaldson said it could remove the “long shadow of the protocol” from Northern Ireland.