A SENIOR EU official has warned the Tories’ plans to tear up the Northern Ireland Protocol will lead to legal action from the bloc and intensify Britain’s economic misery.
In a stark warning David McAllister, chair of the EU’s foreign affairs committee, told The National that ditching the protocol – which allows for frictionless trade on the island of Ireland but is hated by Northern Irish Unionists – would crush the EU’s “trust” in the UK and could end up in court.
