The British Social Attitudes Survey in 2024 demonstrated that public trust in government is now lower than it has been at any time in the last fifty years. At one point in the late eighties the number of people saying they trusted
*Coming to Terms with the Far-Reaching Political Implications of the Murphy Review* Today the Government has published the Independent Review of the Windsor Framework, the Murphy Review. The report is of immense political importance not just for Northern Ireland but for the
The Northern Ireland Protocol/Windsor Framework subjects Northern Ireland to the EU customs code which treats Great Britain as a ‘third country’, that is a foreign country in relation to Northern Ireland. Its application thus has the effect of dividing the United Kingdom
The Irish Sea border, dividing Northern Ireland (NI) from Great Britain (GB), is defined by the Windsor Framework. It introduces ‘Not for EU’ labelling requirements for companies based in GB wishing to sell certain food products to Northern Ireland using the Green
For all the headlines one of the most striking things about the Government’s ill-advised reset summit with the EU on 19 May was that there was not a great deal of substance and for most purposes it amounted to little more than
One of the challenges facing people in any part of the UK seeking to come to terms with the partitioning of our country by the EU is that its architects are building their border gradually. Notwithstanding the fact that in one sense
In 2021 there were repeated calls for the triggering of Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol. The ‘Safeguards’ provision in the treaty, Article 16 sets out the developments that it was agreed cannot reasonably be accommodated within the actual operation of