Interview with Seamus Leheny, Northern Ireland policy manager for Logistics UK
Published: September 13, 2020
MOSCOW, September 13 (Sputnik) – The UK government’s controversial Internal Market Bill has eroded all the clarity that Northern Irish logistics firms previously had over how they would conduct business in the post-Brexit era, Seamus Leheny, the Northern Ireland policy manager for the Logistics UK business association, told Sputnik in an interview.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson introduced the bill to the House of Commons on Wednesday, drawing the ire of Brussels for its potential rollbacks on UK commitments made in January on state aid and customs checks on goods entering Northern Ireland.
The Northern Ireland protocol, which was included in the initial Brexit Withdrawal Agreement, gave goods from Northern Ireland access to the EU’s single market, given that customs checks would not have been conducted on the border with the Republic of Ireland.
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