Talks with the European Union to resolve the Brexit crisis in Northern Ireland have reached a dead end, Liz Truss said, as she justified the government’s plans to overturn parts of the agreement it signed. three years ago.
The European Union will take legal action against Britain tomorrow for violating the terms of the withdrawal agreement after Boris Johsnon introduced legislation to unilaterally reduce Brussels’ influence in Northern Ireland.
The Foreign Minister said today that the government had no choice but to act after the EU refused to change the text of the protocol during eighteen months of negotiations. Truss said the EU had no justification for legal action, arguing that UK plans would not harm the bloc.
“It simply came to our notice then