UK minister says Northern Ireland protocol threatens Good Friday agreement

Conor Burns says Brexit deal intended to support peace accord is undermining cross-community consent

The UK's special envoy for the Northern Ireland protocol has said he told US officials that it has become a threat to the Good Friday agreement.

Conor Burns, the Northern Ireland minister assigned to make the UK's case in Washington, shrugged off a threat earlier this month by the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, to block a US-UK free trade deal if the UK took unilateral action to override the protocol.