The Windsor Framework is understood to have been formally adopted by the EU and the UK at a meeting between the European Commission’s Maroš Šefčovič and Britain’s Foreign Secretary James Cleverly in London this morning.
Yesterday, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Chris Heaton-Harris said there would be no renegotiation of the UK/EU deal to address issues linked to the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Mr Heaton-Harris was speaking after meeting the five main parties at Hillsborough Castle near Belfast.
He said the Windsor Framework, announced last month, would not be reopened for further talks.
“That deal is done and that deal is going to be accepted at a joint committee meeting … and will become international law shortly afterwards,” he told reporters.
His intervention turns the screw on the DUP which says it’s holding out for further concessions before it will agree to restore powersharing at Stormont.
On Wednesday, MPs in the British parliament voted overwhelmingly to endorse the so-called “Stormont Brake” – part of the Windsor Framework.
The measure passed easily, 515 votes to 29 due to Labour support.
Both the DUP and elements of the European Research Group of Tory MPs opposed the measure but were not enough to block it.
The so-called Stormont Brake will give MLAs a role in deciding what new EU laws apply in Northern Ireland.
The DUP says the British government oversold it as some kind of veto.
Windsor Framework formally adopted at EU, UK meeting
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