Today the British government will set out a series of major changes it wants made to the Northern Ireland Protocol, the element of the Brexit trade agreement intended to avoid the return to a hard border on the island of Ireland.

The British minister with responsibility for relations with the EU, David Frost, has said that the protocol is not sustainable.

In a video call with Taoiseach Micheál Martin yesterday, Prime Minster Boris Johnson shared his ideas on how the protocol should be changed.

A statement to be made to the British House of Commons by Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis today, and in the House of Lords by Mr Frost, is expected to call for an end to virtually all checks on goods made in Britain intended for sale in Northern Ireland.

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