The command paper was central to persuading the DUP to end its Stormont boycott last year. It included a pledge to legislate so that NFEU labelling applied to all parts of the UK, not just NI. That will no longer happen with the UKG aiming to deliver the same policy outcome without legislation. /2

The "Not for EU" labels are required in NI as part of the UK's deal with the EU to reduce checks on British products entering NI. The last government had proposed making the labels compulsory in the rest of the UK as way of making sure retailers did not stop supplying products to NI. /3