London (EFE) ”.
In an interview on the “Sky News” channel, the also Minister of Justice pointed out that the British Executive wants first to “make sure that all the pieces are in place” and iron out possible dissensions within his own party.
Raab announced that, according to the terms of what was negotiated with Brussels, the role of the European Court of Justice “will be significantly limited” to resolve possible disputes between the EU and the United Kingdom in Northern Ireland.
The “number two” of the Executive also announced that the cabinet of the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, will give up promoting the law that would allow breaking parts of the protocol unilaterally.
“There is no agreement until everything has been agreed, but we have made great progress, especially in the areas that affect business and companies,” said Raab, who assured that the deputies will be able to vote on the text in Parliament.
Raab’s statements come after Sunak assured in an interview published today in the Sunday Times that his government “is giving everything” to “finish the pending issues of Brexit.”
The conservative Executive will have the guaranteed support of Labor for the agreement, although it is also trying to gain the confidence of the right wing of its own party and of the Northern Irish unionists, who have shown their suspicions about it.
The president of the group of eurosceptic deputies, Mark Francois, reiterated this Sunday that they will not support the pact if the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) does not also do so.
According to Francois, the DUP will not give its support if it finds that Community law prevails over British law in Northern Ireland.
The protocol, designed to avoid a physical border between the two Irelands, keeps Northern Ireland within the Community and British internal market, so trade controls between the United Kingdom and the EU are carried out at entry points Northern Irish.
This has caused, in the opinion of the unionists, significant dysfunctions in the transit of goods between the two islands, something that the reform of the protocol is preparing to solve, by exempting most products arriving in Ulster from Great Britain from controls.
This commercial border located in the Irish Sea is also a political barrier for the unionist community, which maintains that it jeopardizes the relationship of the province with the rest of the United Kingdom.