KEY POINTS OF THE DEAL

■ Two lanes for goods going from Great Britain to Northern Ireland – green with fewer checks if they will stay in Ulster, and red if they may be sent on to EU

■ End to bans on certain products, like chilled sausages, entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain

■ Relaxing rules so patients in Northern Ireland can get same medicines as in the rest of UK

■ UK Government has control of VAT and excise duty in Northern Ireland

■ Pets allowed into Northern Ireland without burdensome EU rules

■ Northern Ireland Assembly gets veto on new EU laws called the ‘Stormont Brake’

■ European Court of Justice retains final say in whether Northern Ireland is following certain EU rules