PM calls on EU to address Brexit issues in Northern Ireland on eve of new paper

Boris Johnson speaks to taoiseach hours before he publishes a blueprint aimed at re-engineering protocol

Boris Johnson has called on the EU to address the serious issues that have arisen" with Brexit in Northern Ireland just hours before he publishes a blueprint aimed at re-engineering the protocol he signed up to in 2019.

He was speaking to Micheal Martin on the eve of the publication by the Brexit minister, David Frost, of a command paper" on the Northern Ireland protocol.