Liz Truss rejects plea from Biden ally not to rewrite the Northern Ireland protocol

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Liz Truss rejects plea from Biden ally not to rewrite the Northern Ireland protocol
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Foreign secretary tells Richard Neal, chair of the US Congress ways and means committee, that she cannot let the Brexit impasse drag on

The protocol, which is part of the 2019 divorce treaty with the European Union, was designed to avoid placing a trade and customs border across the island of Ireland, instead placing it in the Irish Sea. Unionists say this undermines Northern Ireland’s position in the UK and Downing Street is threatening to unilaterally change or even dump the protocol.

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