British Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said on Sunday the political stability of Northern Ireland was in peril until problems with the protocol governing post-Brexit trade between the province and the rest of the United Kingdom were fixed.
In an election on Thursday, Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein won the most seats in the Northern Ireland’s devolved assembly for the first time, a result it said was a “defining moment” for the British-controlled region, Reuters reported Sunday.
It’s “clear that stability is being put at risk, imperiled if you like, by the problems with Northern Ireland protocol,” Raab, who is also Britain’s justice minister, told Sky News on Sunday.
“We are focused on those two elements, bringing the parties together, stability, but also unlocking the problems with the Northern Ireland protocol,” he added.
“We’d prefer to get it resolved through negotiation,” he said. “But of course there are measures that we can take to make sure that we deal with the problem. We can’t put it off.”
SOURCE: JORDAN NEWS AGENCY