Liz Truss warns EU she may have ‘no choice’ but to alter NI protocol

The attorney general for England and Wales said the EU was undermining the Good Friday agreement by creating a trade barrier in the Irish Sea. Photograph: Peter Morrison/PA

The UK foreign secretary has reiterated her threat to scrap parts of the Northern Ireland Brexit protocol, telling the EU’s Brexit negotiator it was a matter of “internal peace and security”.

Liz Truss warned Maroš Šefčovič in a phone call that unless the EU showed the “requisite flexibility” in talks over the trading arrangements she would have “no choice but to act”.