Quote Originally Posted by The Times
Boris Johnson?s Brexit team has been ordered to draw up plans to ?get around? the Northern Ireland protocol in the Brexit withdrawal agreement so the prime minister can play hardball with Brussels over trade.

Officials in Taskforce Europe, run by Johnson?s EU negotiator David Frost, are working in secret on proposals to ensure that there do not need to be checks on goods passing from Britain to Northern Ireland.

They believe the new attorney-general, Suella Braverman, might have to give new legal advice to justify the move. Insiders say she was appointed because her predecessor Geoffrey Cox was not willing to countenance action that will be seen in Brussels as a breach of the exit agreement.
Brexit team seeks to evade Irish Sea checks on goods

Article dated 23rd Feb 2020. Note: Brexit withdrawal agreement (signed 24th Jan 2020).

Less than a month after signing the agreement, and the UK government were already looking to get out of it. And yet the UK government and its supporters persist in blaming the EU on this. Probably because they know that fighting the EU wins votes, which is all that matters.