Lord Moynihan of Chelsea (Con)

My Lords, another day, another SI on the Windsor Framework on just a few products, the excuse being that if we do not do it, we will drag Northern Ireland further away from the rest of the United Kingdom. But the fault is in the Windsor Framework, which was designed—as it carefully was, originally in Chequers and then in the Northern Ireland protocol—to drag the UK back into the EU eventually. The next stop is the reset, with whole categories of products and sectors of the economy. But the only places the UK economy is growing right now are in those parts of the economy that are specifically not under EU law and diverge from it: the flat white tech economy, the City, precision breeding, gene editing. All these are growing precisely because we are not in the EU. Are we eventually going to give up those sectors too, and without any hope of growing the economy? Worse, are we going to continue to deny Northern Ireland the ability to participate fully in those sectors, which right now it cannot do? No—enough of these statutory instruments. The Windsor Framework must go. In the fullness of time, it will. We must all hope for that happy eventuality as we actually, properly, finally leave the EU.