Michael Creed: No interest in ‘trapping’ Britain in a Brexit purgatory

A Government minister has insisted Ireland has no interest in “trapping” Britain in a Brexit purgatory amid ongoing fears of a deepening diplomatic stand-off over the backstop.

Agriculture Minister Michael Creed rejected the repeated claim from London just 24 hours after Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and British prime minister Boris Johnson clashed in their first phone call on the matter.