→ Sunak supports Single Market only for N. Ireland - 1-minute video
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Rishi Sunak - and Keir Starmer - both support Northern Ireland being in the Single Market but NOT the rest of the UK.
Goods coming from the EU to Great Britain - particularly fresh foods - are now subject to #Brexit border controls and checks, meaning extra paperwork, delays, costs and more expensive food for England, Wales, and Scotland.
But this doesn’t apply to Northern Ireland. Why? Because uniquely Northern Ireland is still in the EU’s Single Market for goods.
Following the Northern Ireland Protocol, amended by the Windsor Framework, Northern Ireland exclusively enjoys full market access to both GB and the EU.
Whilst England, Scotland, and Wales must endure Brexit border controls for goods exported to, and imported from the EU, those controls don’t apply to Northern Ireland.
In February last year, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak waxed lyrical about the benefits to Northern Ireland of being in the EU’s Single Market for goods.
Speaking to workers at the Coca-Cola factory in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, Mr Sunak said his new post-Brexit deal put Northern Ireland in an “unbelievably special position”.
The Prime Minister said the new Windsor Framework meant creating "the world's most exciting economic zone" with international companies "queuing up to invest" in Northern Ireland.
Mr Sunak said the Windsor Framework means, “Northern Ireland is in the unbelievably special position - unique position in the entire world, European continent - in having privileged access, not just to the UK home market, which is enormous... but also the European Union Single Market.”
"Nobody else has that. No one,” said Mr Sunak. “Only you guys: only here, and that is the prize."
So enthusiastic was Mr Sunak in his talk to workers in Northern Ireland about the benefits of the EU Single Market that anyone would think he’s an ardent Remainer.
But of all the post-referendum Tory Prime Ministers, Mr Sunak is the most Brexity.
After his effervescent Single Market promotional talk in Northern Ireland, Downing Street was at pains to point out that his comments should not be seen as endorsing EU Single Market benefits for the whole of the UK.
The PM's spokesman said the British people had made their decision in the referendum in 2016, but Northern Ireland needed access to both the UK and EU markets because of the Good Friday Agreement and “to avoid a border on the island of Ireland, which nobody wants to see.”
Can you spot the irony?
Mr Sunak wildly enthusing about Single Market benefits for Northern Ireland, but not endorsing those same benefits for the rest of the UK, which must suffer detrimental barriers to trade with the EU, our biggest export and import market in the world (by far).
© Report and video compilation by @JonDanzig
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