On Friday 22 April, the European Commission declined to comment on reports in the Financial Times the previous day that the British government would introduce a new bill in early May that would allow the provisions of the protocol on Northern Ireland signed at the end of 2019 by the EU and Boris Johnson’s government not to be applied.
However, the Commission reiterated that the UK was “bound” by “legal obligations”, as was the EU, and that the latter intended to continue “working...