Ministers are to make a decision by the end of next month on whether to suspend the Northern Ireland Brexit deal unilaterally.
Lord Frost, the Brexit minister, told the Conservative Party conference that the UK “cannot wait for ever” for Brussels to respond to government proposals to rewrite the controversial Northern Ireland protocol.
This keeps Northern Ireland inside the European Union’s single market and customs union and has infuriated unionists in the province by imposing checks and restrictions on goods crossing the Irish sea.
Senior government sources said that unless Brussels was prepared to engage in a “serious negotiation” over the protocol in the coming weeks the government would have no choice but to suspend the deal by December.
They added that failure to make
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Lord Frost gives EU deadline to save Northern Ireland protocol – The Times
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