Northern Ireland: what are EU and UK proposing and will deal be done?

EU law on medicines may be rewritten and UK has climbed down over ECJ. Here's what we know

• EU and UK at odds over Northern Ireland renegotiation

The UK left the European Union on 31 January 2020 and all EU rules fell away at the start of 2021. Soon after, a row broke out over the Northern Ireland protocol, the tortuously negotiated agreement to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland, by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU single market and customs union.