SteveS1
I heard that, pardon?
The problem is that the EU will not consider 'mutual recognition' of each other's standards, demanding with its now standard imperialist zeal that the UK (and all those other countries) submit to ECJ oversight. This is all the more absurd in the case of the UK because the UK's standards are already the same as, or better, than the EU's.
Yes, of course. Complaints of "rigid implementation" of the NI Protocol. By the same Lord Frost who not only "negotiated" it (I use the term very loosely) but who was also part of a cabal that insisted on an inflexible implementation of Brexit. If only the response to such hypocrisy could have been anticipated. Straight from the Trump playbook, when you need to deflect from your own utter incompetence, create unnecessary conflict with others in the hope that your role will be ignored.