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Brexit: Assembly members to vote on trading arrangements

The motion could be submitted by the first and deputy first ministers but as they did not do so by the end of November, it was tabled jointly by Sinn Fein, Alliance and the SDLP.

The vote is expected to take place on Tuesday 10 December.

But controversially, unlike other votes at Stormont, there is no requirement for cross-community support for the motion. A simple majority will suffice.

The DUP and other unionist parties have argued the vote creates a democratic deficit as the concerns of unionists who are in the minority at Stormont can be ignored.

In a statement last week, DUP leader Gavin Robinson said it had been “deliberately designed to drive a coach and horse through the cross-community consent principle which has been at the very heart of all political progress in Northern Ireland”.

If the vote is carried without cross-community support the government has committed to ordering an independent review of the post-Brexit arrangements and their implications. This is known as the “Stormont brake“.


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