Prime minister unveils agreement with European Commission president after four months of negotiations
Rishi Sunak hailed a “new chapter” in the UK’s relationship with the EU as he agreed a deal to end the dispute over the post-BrexitThe prime minister said he had secured a significant change to the original text of the protocol. Now termed the Windsor framework, it will create a new green lane for traders, scrapping all trade restrictions between Great Britain and Northern Ireland and new freedoms for medicines, chilled meats and pets to move over the Irish Sea.
In a highly symbolic step towards closer relations, Von der Leyen also announced the EU would start the ratification process to allow the UK to return to the flagship £85bn Horizon Europe science research programme after two years of being locked out in tit-for-tat over the protocol dispute. Sunak said the deal would help restore the previously strained relationship with the EU and go much further than previously thought to fix the “democratic deficit” by giving Stormont ministers a direct say in EU laws applying to Northern Ireland. “This is the beginning of a new chapter in a relationship,” he said.
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