British government accused of excluding MPs from Northern Ireland Protocol updates

Union and European Union flags outside the Houses of Parliament (Jonathan Brady/PA)

British Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said it is “appalling” that the House of Commons has been denied an update on the Northern Ireland Protocol while a statement has been placed before the unelected House of Lords.

Raising a point of order, the UK's shadow secretary of state for Northern Ireland Louise Haigh accused the British government of excluding elected representatives from EU negotiations and updates around the protocol after only the House of Lords was briefed by Brexit Minister David Frost last week.