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Brendan Hughes

What is the Stormont Brake? The new veto in the Windsor Framework deal

The Windsor Framework deal on Brexit's Northern Ireland Protocol includes a new veto mechanism called the "Stormont Brake".

It is described in the agreement as giving Stormont a "genuine and powerful role" in deciding whether any significant new EU rules on goods will apply in Northern Ireland.

The UK government believes it helps address some unionist concerns of a "democratic deficit" in the application of EU law on Irish Sea trading arrangements as a result of the protocol.

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