The article discusses the political landscape of Northern Ireland in 2024, highlighting the ongoing impact of Brexit and potential future challenges.
Good morning. Whatever and wherever you celebrate, I hope everyone is enjoying some lovely holiday time. It’s my turn to stand in for Stephen today, with some reflections about Northern Ireland ’s year ahead. The year began with the return of the power-sharing executive when the Stormont Assembly was reinstated in February (eased by a £3.3bn handout from the UK government) after a two-year Brexit impasse.
A lot has changed since — including new leaders for three of the five main parties, a historic funding allocation in the October UK Budget and the Stormont executive’s gritted-teeth, needs-must determination to live within its means . . . finally. But much has stayed the same: the executive still has no real plan to fix the UK’s worst health service waiting lists and too little money to meet all of the region’s howling infrastructure needs. Caoimhe Archibald has impressed as finance minister but all departments have less cash than they want and the executive, pleading poverty, has skirted tough decisions. What will 2025 bring? In short, Brexit back in focus and possibly more political turbulence. Two things happened in December: Stormont (as expected) voted to keep in place for another four years key parts of the Windsor framework governing post-Brexit trade for Northern Ireland. (Remember, Brexit left Northern Ireland with access to the EU’s single market for goods, and thus some EU laws still apply). But the following week, pro-UK unionist legislators pulled the so-called “Stormont Brake”, for the first time activating a mechanism that allows the assembly to lodge objections to the automatic application of updated EU legislation. The row in question is about fonts and spacing on labels for chemical products, which sounds petty and far from “significant impact specific to everyday life of communities in Northern Ireland in a way that is liable to persist” — the test for the UK government upholding any objectio
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