Brexit LIVE: Judgement day for Frost as hated deal could be ruled illegal

NI Protocol issues ‘at heart of broader mistrust’ says Frost

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The Appeal Court in Belfast will hear a challenge to the protocol by a group of unionist politicians, including former DUP leader Arlene Foster and Baroness Hoey. They want to overturn a ruling by Belfast’s High Court in June that Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit arrangements are lawful.

The two-day hearing comes amid tensions between Britain and Brussels over the protocol.

The protocol effectively places Northern Ireland in the EU’s single market for goods to avoid a hard border with Ireland.

But this has led to checks on goods crossing from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, creating a barrier to trade within the UK.

Relations between Britain and the bloc are also strained over a post-Brexit fishing row with France.

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Boris ‘disowning’ own Brexit deal

Boris Johnson’s Government is “disowning” its own Brexit deal, Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has warned.

Number 10, she said, wanted to be in “constant battle and dispute with the EU” but cautioned “it’s not serving British businesses and good skilled jobs well”.

The Labour frontbencher argued there were “so many holes and gaps” in the deal struck by the UK Government, as she pointed to businesses’ concerns across different sectors of the economy, including financial services, professional services, the cultural industries, data, farming and fishing.

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