He said: “I do not think this is consistent with international law and the British government ‘s obligations under international law.
“And that will show over time, but more worryingly, this is a new low in British-Irish relations, certainly in the last 25 years.”
The European Union could impose a record fine of more than € 1 million (£ 870,000) a day on the UK for its plans to overturn the Northern Ireland Protocol.
With rising tensions over the government’s decision to lift controls on goods between Britain and the province, the European Commission will launch three legal proceedings against the UK on Wednesday.
Prior to the provocative announcement, the Commission’s lawyers have been retaliating against the war, so the bloc has considered it a violation of the Brexit withdrawal agreement.
In previous advice drawn up on the possibility of a breach, the EU Legal Service raised the possibility of imposing massive fines on Britain until it re-complies with its commitments under the agreement.
The note stated that the EU Court of Justice has “lawsuits” to slap Britain with a “lump sum or a fine” for failing to comply with a decision by the bloc’s top court.
“Damaging our international reputation”
Meanwhile, Conservative MPs opposed to the new law voiced new criticism on Tuesday.
Simon Hoare, chairman of the Northern Ireland select committee, told The Telegraph:
“There should be a unifying question, ‘Is that what the Conservative Party is doing?’ This is diminishing and damaging our international reputation.
“The United Kingdom has always been seen as a country that, if it gives its word, adheres to it and this is now being deliberately undermined.
“What would we say as a party if Labor did it? We would make hay. “
But a Conservative MP, who is a member of the liberal group One Nation, said of potential rebels that there was a “distrust of being at the” wrong “end of a Brexit dispute and how they perceived it. voters “.
They added that “there is a problem to be resolved definitively with the Protocol” and MEPs are aware that “the EU will not be soft on this, so any party dispute will strengthen their hand”.