GROUPS helping some of Northern Ireland’s most vulnerable people will not know if their
bids for new British Government funding have been approved until just days before their
European Union funding runs out.

The Labour leader told Rishi Sunak that his party will provide the ‘political cover’ he may require to reach a compromise with Brussels.

The row over Mary Lou McDonald’s exclusion from a meeting this week has overshadowed talks on the protocol and Stormont crisis.

The Foreign Secretary met political parties and businesses in Northern Ireland today.

TALKS between the EU and the UK yielded a breakthrough in protocol-linked data-sharing

The two sides reached agreement on data sharing and EU access to UK IT systems.

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris met European Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic.

The Taoiseach said he will be as flexible and reasonable as possible when attempting to solve issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol.

Lord Benyon has written to peers about arrangements to replace parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol.

In a call today, the Prime Minister and the European Commission president discussed the post-Brexit arrangements in Northern Ireland.

The British Chambers of Commerce warned that a significant number of firms were still struggling with the UK-EU trade deal two years on.

A decision by the European Union Commission to extend for three years a “grace period” for veterinary medicine was welcomed by the Dairy Council.

The Prime Minister pledged to resolve issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol during a visit to a Belfast shipyard.