Northern Ireland Protocol news — live: Boris Johnson heads to Belfast amid ‘harmful consequences’ warning & More Trending News

Business leaders in Northern Ireland have urged Boris Johnson to pull again from radical unilateral motion to ditch protocol checks, because the prime minister heads to Belfast for disaster talks.

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Liz Truss has unveiled a serious shake-up to hyperlink abroad assist to increasing commerce, triggering accusations the UK is popping its again on the world’s poorest.

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Boris Johnson should discover options to Brexit’s Northern Ireland protocol that fulfill each nationalists and unionists, Labour has stated.

Peter Kyle, the shadow Northern Ireland secretary, spoke to Sky News earlier forward of the prime minister’s go to to Belfast.

Labour MP Tulip Siddiq, shadow financial secretary to the Treasury, stated minister Rachel Maclean’s feedback advising individuals to get a greater job present the federal government “could not be more out of touch or out of ideas”, our politics reporter, Adam Forrest, writes.

“As energy bills rise by record amounts for millions of families, comments like this are ridiculous – as is the prime minister’s refusal to back a windfall tax on oil and gas producer profits that could tackle the cost of living crisis.”

Wendy Chamberlain, the Liberal Democrats’ work and pensions spokesperson, stated: “So the Conservatives’ answer to the cost-of-living emergency is that people should just earn more? This shows just how out of touch they truly are.”

Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has known as for a rethink over using mounted penalty discover (FPN) fines handed out to Boris Johnson and Downing Street employees over the Partygate scandal.

The Brexit alternatives minister claimed that FPNs defy the British custom of burden of proof – arguing that they assume “you’re guilty until you prove your innocence”.

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Home Office minister Rachel Maclean stated civil servants are “working really hard” and that they “are still delivering” when working from house.

“A lot of them are back at work and we certainly have civil servants in the Home Office – when I go back there today, they will be back at their desks,” the safeguarding minister informed ITV’s Good Morning Britain programme.

“I think the economy as a whole has moved to a more hybrid working pattern, I’m quite relaxed about that.

“I believe it’s for employers to take into account how finest to obtain their outcomes. It is definitely about efficiency and supply.”

Asked whether or not she was “at odds” with government efficient minister Jacob Rees-Mogg on the issue of working from home, Ms Maclean said: “Not in any respect.”

She added: “We’ve had a pandemic, issues have modified, individuals work otherwise.

“If people work from home, it is incumbent on their managers and ministers, such as myself, to make sure they are still delivering. And actually, that’s what we are seeing in the Home Office.”

More than 8,000 asylum seekers and migrants have arrived within the UK after crossing the English Channel this 12 months, figures present.

Since the beginning of 2022, 8,393 individuals have reached the UK after navigating busy transport lanes from France in small boats, in accordance to evaluation of presidency information by the PA news company.

This is greater than double the quantity recorded for a similar interval in 2021 (3,112) and greater than six instances the quantity recorded at this level in 2020 (1,340).

Crossings resumed this weekend, with greater than 600 individuals arriving in Kent over two days, after 4 consecutive days final week with none happening amid poor climate situations.

Some 436 individuals made the crossing to the UK in 9 boats on Sunday after 167 in 13 boats arrived on Sunday, in accordance to Ministry of Defence (MoD) figures.

Ireland’s international minister Simon Coveney acknowledged there have been issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol and he hoped Boris Johnson’s go to to Belfast could be constructive.

Mr Coveney informed reporters in Brussels: “The prime minister is in Northern Ireland today and I hope we’ll get a message of a willingness to work together to try to respond to these issues.

“There are real issues in relation to the implementation of the protocol that need the attention of both the UK and the EU working together to make sure that we can respond to concerns on the ground.”

The Northern Ireland Protocol “isn’t working in its current format”, authorities minister Rachel Maclean additionally stated this morning forward of the PM’s go to.

“I think the key thing here is that the prime minister is going to Northern Ireland today because he recognises that the protocol needs to be reformed,” she informed Times Radio.

“It isn’t working in its current format and we need to have the executive up and running, because that is how we will actually deal with those issues affecting businesses and the cost of living in Northern Ireland.”

A Home Office minister admitted she didn’t have the numbers to hand on her division’s stop-and-search modifications as she appeared to muddle the quantity of hours the powers could possibly be prolonged for.

Home secretary Priti Patel has made everlasting modifications to Section 60 extending the size of time the additional looking out powers may be in power from 15 to 24 hours.

Rachel Maclean, requested how lengthy a Section 60 may be put in place for, informed LBC: “I think the time is 12 hours.”

Told it was not 12 hours, however 24 below the modifications, she replied: “Oh, forgive me, 24 hours. I need another coffee.”

Pressed additional, she responded: “I think it is … No, I’m being quite upfront with you, I haven’t got the paper in front of me, forgive me.”

Asked whether or not she thought she ought to know such data, she stated: “I do know. But … you’re doing a very good job of demonstrating that I don’t have the papers in front of me now.”