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I'm David O'Ronovich. Welcome to the briefing room, the audio mind space where you, me, and top experts come together and inside 28 minutes wrangle a big issue.

On Monday, the Northern Ireland Protocol was slated to be ditched and the Winds of Framework

appeared and Brexit was declared done.

But now the experts have had a chance to examine it what's actually in the framework

and are all our problems solved.

Brexit? Brexit created huge problems for Northern Ireland,

problems which were supposed to be solved by the protocol agreed between Boris Johnson's government and the EU.

But it turned out that the protocol was creating new problems. On Monday, these were declared

solved by Rishi Sunak and the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen,

when they presented the Windsor framework, and declared not solved by Boris Johnson earlier

today. So, what's in the framework? Can it work? And does it mean Brexit is,

as is being claimed, finally done? Step into the briefing room and together we'll find out.

This task sounds challenging, so I've called on four briefing room regulars to help us properly but painlessly understand the Windsor framework.

Peter Foster is the Financial Times Public Policy Editor.

Sam McBride is Northern Ireland editor of the Belfast Telegraph and Sunday Independent.

Anand Menon is director at UK and a changing Europe.

And Jill Rutter is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government.

Peter, if I can start off with you, what is the protocol and why has it been such a problem?

So the protocol is the deal that Boris Johnson signed, as you said, that ensured there was not a

return to a trade border in Northern Ireland. Remember, with Brexit, the border between Northern Ireland

and Republic Island becomes an external border of the EU. And in order to avoid that becoming a trade

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