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The Northern Ireland protocol is lawful, the supreme court has ruled rejecting a protracted legal challenge to the Brexit arrangements by a group of unionist leaders including the former first ministers the late David Trimble and Arlene Foster.
The judges rejected the appeal on all three grounds unanimously, Lord Stephens told the court on Wednesday morning.
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