ConservativeHome, July 26, Lord Dodds
The Report from the House of Lords Select Committee on the Protocol/Windsor Framework cuts through the hype and spin around the Government’s narrative on the Windsor Framework and analyses the facts behind Number 10’s propaganda.
Overhyped and oversold from the beginning, not least by the Prime Minister, the Windsor Framework has been deliberately shrouded in ambiguity ever since.
Members of Parliament in both Houses struggle to elicit clear answers to Parliamentary questions designed to probe the far-reaching implications of EU law being applied to Northern Ireland, how red and green lanes will operate in practice and the timetable for implementation.
There has never been a vote on the Framework as a whole, only on individual pieces of secondary legislation of varying degrees of importance.
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