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David Bond

Dial down rhetoric and be honest over Brexit protocol, warns Brussels

Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis pictured on Sunday

(Picture: PA)

Brussels on Monday warned the UK to “dial down the rhetoric” insisting it will not renegotiate the post-Brexit trade deal for Northern Ireland amid concerns that Britain could be preparing to unilaterally rip up the deal.

The Democratic Unionist Party has said it will refuse to join a new executive in Northern Ireland following last week’s Stormont elections until the Northern Ireland Protocol, which introduced checks on some goods between Great Britain and the region, is changed.

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