Taoiseach calls for all sides to ‘dial down the rhetoric’ on NI protocol
The plea comes after former UUP leader David Trimble accuses the Irish government and others of ‘escalating tensions’ in the North
The Taoiseach has urged the DUP to stick with the Northern Ireland protocol which he said can be made to operate in a more effective manner.
The British parliament will debate a petition, organised by the Democratic Unionist Party, tomorrow calling for the protocol to be scrapped.
The petition, which received more than 142,000 signatures, said that any barriers to seamless trade between Britain and the North must be immediately removed.
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