Northern Ireland to get new Brexit trade rules in deal to restore power sharing

UK internal market' to be created to ease unionist fears over de facto border in the Irish Sea

New rules to smooth post-Brexit trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland have been unveiled by the government as part of a deal with the Democratic Unionist party that will restore the Stormont executive and install a Sinn Fein first minister.

A command paper titled Safeguarding the Union was published on Wednesday to allay DUP fears about Northern Ireland's place in the UK and to end a two-year boycott of power sharing that has destabilised the country.