The Daily Telegraph, 28 September
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David Jones, a former Brexit minister, said: “The attitude is what it always was. The EU has always wanted to punish the UK for daring to exercise its treaty right to leave. NI is the EU’s continuing leverage over the whole of the UK. It is exercising that leverage and will continue to do so until we take steps to break it.
“This simply underlines that the Windsor Framework is a huge ball and chain that prevents the entire UK from diverging from EU regulation. It needs to be renegotiated.”
The UK Government said: “This is ultimately a historic case which began at a time when the UK was a member of the EU. We have now left.
“Since then, we have negotiated the world’s largest zero tariffs and zero quotas deal with the EU, and are now focused on using our Brexit freedoms to the benefit of the British public.”
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