The UK government is prepared to tear up the post-Brexit deal governing trade in Northern Ireland, a senior minister in Boris Johnson’s government has warned.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Brexit opportunities minister, told a committee of MPs that if the EU did not reform the so-called Northern Ireland Protocol then the UK government was within its rights to take unilateral action.
“We signed it [the protocol] on the basis that it would be reformed,” Rees-Mogg said, “And there comes a point where we say, ‘You haven’t reformed it and therefore we are reforming it ourselves’.”
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