Angry Tory MPs reject Joe Biden's comments on UK-EU Brexit talks
by Patrick Wintour and Daniel Boffey from on (#587Y4)
Trade deal with US not possible if UK undermines Good Friday agreement, Democrats say
Conservative MPs have reacted angrily to an intervention by Joe Biden, the US Democratic presidential candidate, in the UK Brexit talks, accusing him of ignorance of the Northern Ireland peace process.
In a tweet on Wednesday Biden warned the UK there will be no US-UK free trade agreement if the Brexit talks end with the Good Friday agreement being undermined. He tweeted: We can't allow the Good Friday agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland to become a casualty of Brexit.
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