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Brandon Lewis has said the UK has shown “good faith” in ongoing negotiations over the Northern Ireland protocol by not triggering article 16.
The Northern Secretary said on Sunday the UK wanted to achieve “proper, sustainable” solutions to the row over the protocol.
“What we’re saying is that article 16 conditions have been met. We could trigger it. But we’re showing our good faith in wanting to negotiate proper, sustainable solutions by not actually triggering it,” he said.
The EU has not done enough on its side to resolve issues around the protocol, Mr Lewis told the BBC on Sunday.
The protocol is a post-Brexit arrangement to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland. Triggering article 16 allows either side to unilaterally seek to dispense with some of the terms if they are proving unexpectedly harmful.
On Friday British prime minister Boris Johnson said it was possible the British government would trigger article 16 if the EU did not make appropriate concessions on trading restrictions on Northern Ireland.
He said the protocol could work in principle but warned it will come down to “fixing it or ditching it”.
Speaking on Saturday, Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney said he does not expect the UK to trigger article 16.
“My understanding is that the British government is not likely to trigger article 16,” Mr Coveney told RTÉ . “It would be a hugely problematic backward step in relationships between the UK government and the EU institutions at a time actually when we are trying to build trust.”
Regulatory checks
Mr Lewis also said there would always be the need for some kind of regulatory checks between Northern Ireland and Britain.
“There will always be an agreement, a treaty, a structure between us and the EU for goods that are moving into the EU,” Mr Lewis said.
“It’s often forgot there has been some form of phytosanitary checks, the SPS checks people talk about, between Great Britain and Northern Ireland because of the single epidemiological unit of the island for a very, very long time.”
“So some form of structure around that isn’t going to change. What we need to do is resolve these issues that are currently there with the protocol.”
Mr Lewis said he was hopeful DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson would not follow up on a threat to collapse Stormont.
“I’m hopeful that the DUP don’t do that. I am hopeful we can get a resolution from the EU,” Mr Lewis said. “I don’t think the public wants to see Stormont come down.”
Mr Lewis refused to say whether, if Stormont did collapse, he would call an early Assembly election ahead of the scheduled date in May. – PA