Support for post-Brexit trade rules grows in Northern Ireland - poll

FILE PHOTO: A port worker checks the paperwork of a truck that will board the 'European Causeway' P&O ferry bound for Scotland, in Larne, Northern Ireland June 20, 2022. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

A growing majority of voters in Northern Ireland support the region's post-Brexit trade rules, large swathes of which the British government are currently moving to do away with, a survey showed on Wednesday.

Under the Northern Ireland protocol, the British-run region effectively remained in the EU's single market for goods as the rest of the United Kingdom departed last year, necessitating checks on some goods coming from Britain.