The UK has been warned that it won’t be able to strike a free trade agreement with the world’s biggest economy if it goes ahead with plans to renege on the Northern Ireland Protocol.
In a bluntly worded statement, the Speaker of the US House Nancy Pelosi said Congress won’t support a trade deal if the UK undermines the Good Friday Agreement in any way, a thinly veiled reference to recent comments by the UK Foreign Secretary.
Earlier this week Liz Truss threatened to rip up certain parts of the Protocol to make it easier for a range of goods to be exported from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, a move which intensified tensions with the European Union.
