BELFAST — Results from the Northern Ireland Assembly election have answered a key post-Brexit question: Most lawmakers at Stormont in Belfast want the trade protocol to stay, not go.
This matters because the protocol — a part of the 2019 Withdrawal Agreement that the U.K. government has spent the past year refusing to implement in full and threatening to disrupt further — contains an easily misunderstood “consent” section.
At first glance, it gives the newly elected assembly a bona-fide chance in 2024 to shoot the whole thing down.
But in reality, the results from Thursday’s election mean there’s no longer any chance this can happen. The new 90-seat assembly
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