Member

That is where we are. It is a messy compromise. It does not get rid of the Irish Sea border, and I will to come to that, but it deals—with many of the side-effects that have been correctly noted by the noble Baroness, Lady Hoey, and the noble Lord, Lord Dodds—with a number of the obvious defects of the original settlement and places Northern Ireland in a better place: a place that has allowed the return of the functioning of the institutions of the Good Friday agreement.