Member

As the noble Baroness, Lady Hoey, said, these regulations illustrate the folly of the approach that Northern Ireland had to be aligned with European law for single market purposes, for the purposes of agri-food production and so on and so forth because that was the only way to avoid a hard border and the carrying out of checks along the border. We can now see from these regulations that it is perfectly possible to preserve the sovereignty of our country and ensure that there is no so-called hard border. This can be done by sending, for instance, as is said in these regulations, electronic pre-notification, requiring some lorries to attend a facility for checks that do not have to be at the border on an at-risk, intelligence-led basis. What could be wrong with that?