{"id":1169,"date":"2020-09-08T11:45:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T10:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/resignation-of-head-of-uk-government-legal-department-shows-how-high-brexit-stakes-are\/"},"modified":"2020-09-08T11:45:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T10:45:18","slug":"resignation-of-head-of-uk-government-legal-department-shows-how-high-brexit-stakes-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/resignation-of-head-of-uk-government-legal-department-shows-how-high-brexit-stakes-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Resignation of head of UK Government legal department demonstrates how high Brexit stakes are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the UK\u2019s Government legal department, Jonathan Jones, has quit over suggestions that Boris Johnson is trying to row back on parts of last year\u2019s Brexit deal relating to Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the development, Social Democrats Brexit spokesperson, Cian O\u2019Callaghan TD, said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt appears from the resignation of Jonathan Jones that the UK Government is not just \u2018sabre rattling\u2019 and that there is a very real risk that they will renege on parts of the Northern Ireland protocol already agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UK Government has pursued a very clear strategy of running down the clock on the negotiations to ensure that only a bare bones agreement can be made. It is becoming increasingly difficult for the EU negotiating team to make progress with a counterpart that refuses to engage in detailed discussion, and which is indicating that it may not stick to agreements already made.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe conclusion of a trade deal is of huge economic importance to the UK and Ireland. However, the European Union cannot be bullied into a deal which compromises its internal market and must stand firm against the various tactics being employed by the UK Government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>September 8, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the UK\u2019s Government legal department, Jonathan Jones, has quit over suggestions that Boris Johnson is trying to row back on parts of last year\u2019s Brexit deal relating to Northern Ireland. Commenting on the development, Social Democrats Brexit spokesperson, Cian O\u2019Callaghan TD, said: \u201cIt appears from the resignation of Jonathan Jones that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cian-ocallaghan","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Resignation of head of UK Government legal department demonstrates how high Brexit stakes are - Social Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/resignation-of-head-of-uk-government-legal-department-shows-how-high-brexit-stakes-are\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ga_IE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Resignation of head of UK Government legal department demonstrates how high Brexit stakes are - Social Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The head of the UK\u2019s Government legal department, Jonathan Jones, has quit over suggestions that Boris Johnson is trying to row back on parts of last year\u2019s Brexit deal relating to Northern Ireland. 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