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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 30 June 2025
Debate
Marking of Retail Goods Regulations 2025Contribution
Let us think about that. UK citizens in Northern Ireland, who have already been told we must make do with being disfranchised in all those areas of law, are now being told we must also make do with regular supply chain breakdowns. We are supposed to be satisfied with a government promise that they will try to reverse it. I respectfully suggest that any other self-respecting country in the world would not bow down to the demands of other countries when doing so has the effect of not only agreeing to the partial disfranchisement of its citizens but causing them to live with supply chain breakdowns. Whatever happened to the talk that came from so many people about Northern Ireland’s privileged position as a result of the Irish Sea border? The privilege, perhaps, of having to live with the constant threat of supply chain breakdown is a privilege we can do without, and to which no part of the United Kingdom should be subject.
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