'The protocol is here to stay, so they need to stop the high wire act and playing to the gallery.'
The next prime minister must face up to the reality that the Northern Ireland Protocol is here to stay, Michelle O'Neill has said.
The republican party has accused the Government of doing the DUP's bidding by introducing domestic legislation at Westminster to empower ministers to unilaterally scrap parts of the contentious post-Brexit trading arrangements.The DUP is currently blocking the restoration of a Stormont executive in Belfast as part of its campaign against the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Mr Vara has replaced Brandon Lewis as Secretary of State after he quit in the turbulent days ahead of Boris Johnson's decision to stand down as prime minister. "I have spoken with the new Secretary of State and I think even his appointment shows the interest that the British government have in the people here - he's the seventh Secretary of State in the last decade," she said.
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