Johnson’s tattered “Orange card”
The Tories have set a course for a major confrontation with the EU, as the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill threatens to rip up large parts of the Brexit deal agreed between the UK and Europe. Long-awaited, the Bill, if passed, would remove the direct effect of parts of the Withdrawal Agreement in domestic law. This would prevent it from having supremacy over UK law, allowing the UK to override parts of the Protocol. UK authorities, including Parliament, ministers and the civil service, would therefore no longer have to comply with parts of the Protocol which have been disapplied. The Clause...