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David Bond

Minister risks inflaming tensions with US over Northern Ireland

A minister has risked stoking a transatlantic row over Brexit after urging senior members of the US congress to temper their language over the Northern Ireland Protocol.

Conor Burns, a Northern Ireland minister and the UK’s special envoy for the Northern Ireland Protocol, has been in Washington this week to meet with US politicians after Britain published a new Bill this week which would allow the UK to unilaterally rip up parts of the contentious agreement with the EU.

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