UK and EU set for crunch talks amid mounting tensions over Northern Ireland protocol
The Northern Ireland protocol has been a point of contention ever since it was implemented. Credit: PA The UK and EU are set for crunch talks with Northern Ireland's leaders over mounting tensions that have led to threats of violence around the post-Brexit Irish Sea trade arrangements. First Minister Arlene Foster and senior Democratic Union Party colleagues held discussions with Prime Minister Boris Johnson ahead of the discussions with the EU. Downing Street said they discussed the decision by the EU last Friday to threatened to stop vaccine exports into Northern Ireland, which they later b...