DUP gives Liz Truss February deadline to fix Brexit protocol row

Liz Truss in Northern Ireland, where she spoke to Glyn Roberts, chief executive of Retail NI, left, and Kenny Bradley, managing director of Greens of Lisburn. Photograph: Handout

The Democratic Unionist party has set 21 February as a fresh deadline for the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, to find a solution to the dispute over the Northern Ireland Brexit protocol.

In her first visit to Northern Ireland, Truss, who inherited Brexit negotiations from Lord Frost at Christmas, met the DUP’s Paul Givan and Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill, first minister and deputy first minister respectively.