
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.