Emergency talks between the UK and EU over the Northern Ireland Protocol are due on Thursday as ministers consider whether to override parts of the post-Brexit deal.
The UK’s Attorney General Suella Braverman is said to have approved the scrapping of swathes of the agreement, giving Boris Johnson legal cover to make the move, despite warnings from Joe Biden‘s White House and European leaders not to single-handedly meddle with the terms.
And in the next few hours, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will call the vice president of the European Commission Maros Sefcovic where she is expected to tell him the dispute cannot drag on.
On Wednesday, the prime minister said the Good Friday Agreement was more important than the Northern Ireland Protocol as he dismissed suggestions of any possible escalatory response from the European Union as “crazy”.
He said there was no need for “drama” as he doubled down on hints he could override elements of the deal.
Ms Truss had warned she…
