EU tells UK it will not renegotiate terms of Northern Ireland’s Brexit deal

EU Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic said "we will continue to engage with the UK".

EU Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic said "we will continue to engage with the UK".

The European Union has warned the UK it will not renegotiate the deal on Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading arrangements after Lord Frost demanded significant changes to the terms.

Britain's Brexit minister David Frost said “we cannot go on as we are” but held back – for now – from taking the dramatic step of effectively suspending parts of the deal, even though he claimed the UK would be justified to do so.

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