Chris Heaton-Harris says Northern Ireland’s place in UK secure as DUP mulls over latest post-Brexit plan
The Windsor deal aims to reduce checks between Northern Ireland and Britain after businesses in the North were left following EU rules on goods to avoid a hard trade border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, an EU member, after the UK’s departure from the bloc.
Unlike the petition of concern, the brake does not to go a vote of the overall Assembly where it would require a majority of nationalists and a majority of unionists for the veto request to pass. Mr Heaton-Harris said the brake was essentially “going to act similar to the petition of concern mechanism”. Asked if the request of the 30 MLAs for the brake to be applied would then be put to a full vote of the Assembly, he said: “Not in the system that we are suggesting.”“But if the Assembly wanted to have an indicative vote, I am sure it could but, as I said, it is going to be codified in the next few days so everyone will get the clarity that they want,” he said.
Mr Heaton-Harris said there would be a “whole bunch of consultations beforehand” and “tests” to ensure the mechanism was only applied on “things that are significant” and “things that are really causing concern to the people of Northern Ireland”.
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