British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told Northern Ireland businesses they can put customs declarations forms “in the bin” because there will be “no barriers of any kind” to trade crossing the Irish Sea.
He has suggested Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay had been wrong to say goods between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom would face checks as a result of the Brexit deal struck with the European Union.
Barclay previously told MPs that “some information” and “minimal targeted interventions” would be required on goods travelling between the two areas of the UK, due to Northern Ireland remaining aligned with Dublin and Brussels’s trading rules for agricultural products and manufactured items as part of the exit terms.
But in a personal intervention, the PM told Conservative supporters and Northern Ireland business figures that the secretary of state’s advice was not correct.
