Brexit is imploding and looks like Boris Johnson is engineering it
- EU and UK political figures slam plan to override part of Britain’s EU withdrawal agreement
- Boris Johnson said new bill was a legal safety net designed to ‘protect our country’
The UK faces an irreparable rupture with the European Union after the government published a bill that appears to ride roughshod over its withdrawal treaty signed last year with Brussels.
The government was also accused of breaking international law and even turning Britain into a “rogue” state and taking actions that also seriously jeopardise a planned trade deal with the United States.
The so-called Internal Market Bill would allow Britain to unilaterally decide how goods will flow between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, rather than by a joint decision process as agreed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson with the EU last autumn.
The proposed legislation dramatically raises the chances of a no-deal Brexit causing further disruption to an economy already hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.