‘The uncertainty was the biggest challenge. So this is good progress,” says Andrew Lynas, of the new deal struck on Monday between the UK and EU to try to end the dispute over the Northern Ireland protocol.
For the managing director of Lynas Foodservice, a family-run firm from Coleraine, the post-Brexit trade agreement has caused severe headaches. But what he sees as far more important than the reams of additional paperwork, costs and severed relationships with English suppliers is the lifting of the political storm.