There will be no routine checks on goods moving between Great Britain and Ireland the government has announced as part of a deal to get the DUP back in a power-sharing agreement at Stormont
The move is one of many measures designed to restore Northern Ireland’s place within the United Kingdom and its internal market.
The eighty page document means that EU law will no longer apply automatically in Northern Ireland and also include an East-West Council, a new trade body and one UK cabinet meeting in Northern Ireland annually.
Northern Ireland’s Brexit deal kept the province inside the EU’s single market for goods and prevented a post-Brexit trade border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland which meant the introduction of checks and controls on goods from Great Britain.
Meanwhile after almost two years of a power vacuum in Northern Ireland, the regional government might be within days of returning, restoring a key part of a 1998 peace deal which ended decades of sectarian violence in the region.
