1. The latest iteration of Brexit not being “done”: a farce in the Commons The Northern Ireland Protocol Bill passed its second reading this week. For those unaware of what this piece of legislation is and looks to achieve, it is about giving the UK government the explicit ability to break an international treaty. And not just any international treaty, but one the Tories ran pretty much the entirety of their last general election around signing, something they said would “get Brexit done”. Yet here we are, two and a half years later, watching the very same government still tinkering with Brexit. It’s enough to make you think they weren’t entirely honest about it all.
Meanwhile, in the land bound by Protocol, trade isn't as bad as some misbegots make out...
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