FILE PHOTO: Jeffrey Donaldson, leader of the Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist Party, speaks to the media at the Culloden Hotel in Belfast, Northern Ireland February 17, 2023. REUTERS/Lorraine O’Sullivan

LONDON, March 6 (Reuters) – Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) set up a group on Monday for a month-long consultation on last week’s deal between Britain and the United Kingdom. European Union aiming to simplify post-Brexit trade rules, which pro-British politicians in the region have yet to decide whether or not to back them.

The ultimate success of the new deal agreed by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will likely hinge on his ability to convince the DUP to end a year-long boycott by Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government on trade rules initially adopted after Brexit.

The UK is expected to start clarifying to Northern Irish parliamentarians this week aspects of the newly agreed trade deals, which the creation of the consultation group will give the DUP at least until April to decide.

“The group will work independently and report to me at the end of March,” DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson said in a statement.

“They will want to engage with a broad swath of the Unionist and Loyalist community, business, civil society and others who want to see Northern Ireland thrive in the union (along with the UK) .”

The advisory group, made up of party members and ‘independent thinkers’, includes MPs from the UK and regional chambers, former Unionist Party leaders Peter Robinson and Arlene Foster, businessman Ross Reed and lawyer John McBurney, who is also part of an independent body that oversees paramilitary activity in the area.

Donaldson reiterated that, if only “significant progress” has been made with new knowledge, if there are any concerns, sosteniendo that no one can “hide the news that in some sectors of our economy EU legislation should be applicable in Ireland North”.

He also said parliamentarians were waiting for more parts of the legal text to be released to give effect to some of the changes.

Aunque las encuestas de opinión han mostrado systematisme que la mayoría de los voters norirlandeses – que se oponen al Brexit – están a favor de l’objetivo de los acuerdos originales commerciales, los controls sobre el comercio enraged a lotos unionistas, que consideran que socavan la union con United Kingdom.

“History teaches us that getting the right result for Northern Ireland is always better than a hasty result,” Donaldson said.

(Reporting by Kylie MacLellan in London, Padraic Halpin in Dublin and Amanda Ferguson in Belfast; editing by William James; editing in Spanish by Dario Fernández)

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