‘A bureaucratic change’: Boris Johnson defends Northern Ireland protocol bill

Move to unilaterally amend post-Brexit protocol could prove deeply damaging', says Irish foreign minister

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Boris Johnson has defended a bill to unilaterally amend the Northern Ireland protocol as a straightforward bureaucratic change", as the Irish foreign minister said the plans would break international law and marked a particular low point" in Brexit.

In a sign of a possible rupture in relations between the UK and EU nations due to the bill, being published later on Monday, Simon Coveney warned his British counterpart, Liz Truss, that it could prove deeply damaging".