There is “no reason” why the EU should be angry about to the UK’s plan to unilaterally override the Northern Ireland protocol, the British foreign secretary has said.
Liz Truss has insisted the plan to tear up the agreed post-Brexit agreement “doesn’t make the EU any worse off” in an interview on Tuesday morning.
But the plan to unilaterally rewrite trade rules has sparked backlash from across the European Union, with the bloc saying it would restart legal action.
“Unilateral action is damaging to mutual trust,” Maros Sefcovic, the European Commission vice president, said.
Meanwhile, Sinn Fein’s Stormont leader has blasted the UK’s move as “disgraceful and utterly reckless” and a “straight up, slam dunk breach of an international agreement”.
The British government proposed new legislation to change the trade rules on Monday, which would remove customs checks on some goods entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK.
