Brussels Says No (with Simon Hoare MP)

The EU Commission President has rejected attempts to change the Northern Ireland Protocol, blaming the problems with it on Brexit rather than Brussels.Simon Hoare, Conservative MP for North Dorset and chair of the Northern Ireland affairs committee, tells Bloomberg Westminster's Caroline Hepker and Roger Hearing he is disappointed with the commission response. Hoare also says the new DUP leader Edwin Poots is likely to be more flexible in negotiations on this issue than he appeared to be in the leadership campaign.Plus Andrew Wilson, professor of East European Studies at University College London and author of Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship joins to discuss the results of EU pressure over the Ryanair plane incident - saying the coerced confession of the detained journalist is a "hostage video".See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.