EU’s Brexit commissioner is conciliatory over Northern Ireland but patience is wearing thin
It will never catch on. It was far too reasonable. After Lord Frost had his temper tantrum in Lisbon the day before, it was the turn of Maroš Šefčovič, vice-president of the European Commission, to set out the EU’s proposals for ironing out the UK’s problems with implementing the Northern Ireland protocol at a press conference in Brussels.
Šefčovič could have chosen the nuclear option. He could have started by saying that Lord Frost appeared to want to renegotiate the Northern Ireland protocol that Lord Frost had himself negotiated less than two years previously. That it would have been helpful for the UK to have spent more time examining the deal they had signed at the time, rather than just sign any old agreement to get Brexit done and then hope to rework the bits that were politically tricky for the hardline Brexiters at a later date.
