The UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has appealed to his colleagues, the Conservative MPs to support his legislation that is speculated to break international law.
Mr Johnson addressed about 250 MPs on Friday evening, urging them to back the controversial UK Internal Market Bill to avoid ‘an economic barrier down the Irish Sea’
The Prime Minister said some clauses in the legislation is ‘absolutely vital to protecting the integrity of our country’.
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The proposed bill contradicts the deal Mr Johnson’s and his team had signed with the EU.
Brussels had threatened legal action if the UK government continues with the legislation that will violate an international treaty.
The European Parliament leaders have also warned that if UK authorities breach the Withdrawal Agreement, there will be no ratification under any circumstances.
The bill was drawn up to ensure trade between all four home nations remains barrier-free after the Brexit transition period ends on 31 December 2020.
In reaction, Mr Johnson said “In the last few weeks I’ve had a concern about a difference of opinion that is becoming stark in their interpretation and our interpretation of the Northern Ireland protocol.”
“The difficulty has been that the EU has decided that unless we agree to their interpretation of what the checks would be, then the default position in the event of there being no agreement is that there should be nothing short of an economic barrier down the Irish Sea with tariffs.”
The PM continued “So what we need to do is clear up what I think is a serious anomaly in the protocol and put a safety net under it.
“What we can’t have is the threat of a border down the Irish Sea and the threat of the breakup of the United Kingdom.”
In a piece written in the Daily Telegraph on Saturday by Mr Johnson, he said the EU Capital would use an extreme interpretation of the Northern Ireland Protocol to impose ‘a full-scale border down the Irish sea’ and could carve up our country’ and ‘seriously endanger peace and stability’ in Northern Ireland.
He added, “I have to say that we never seriously believed that the EU would be willing to use a treaty, negotiated in good faith, to blockade one part of the UK, to cut it off; or that they would actually threaten to destroy the economic and territorial integrity of the UK.”
“If we fail to pass this bill, or if we weaken its protections, then we will in fact reduce the chances of getting that Canada-style deal,” he wrote.
“Let’s remove this danger to the very fabric of the United Kingdom. Let’s make the EU take their threats off the table. And let’s get this bill through, back up our negotiators, and protect our country.”
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