Member

Unfortunately, we have seen in recent days a development whereby the mechanism that was trumpeted by Rishi Sunak and others as a means of giving Stormont a brake on the application of EU law has been shown to be nothing of the sort. It is a dodgy brake, which is normally a subject matter for dodgy car salesmen, but in this case a dodgy politician and others portrayed the brake as something it is not. It is not a Stormont brake, for instance, because Stormont does not have the final say. Many of us argued that at the time; were dismissed by people in this House, people in the other House and by our political opponents, but we have been proved absolutely right. That cannot, therefore, be pointed to as a means of cutting the pipeline of European law, as people suggested that it would.