NI could become ‘permanent casualty’ of Brexit if Protocol dispute not resolved

A House of Lords committee said there was an urgent need for compromise (Brian Lawless/PA)

The Northern Ireland Protocol risks becoming a constant irritant in future EU/UK relations unless both sides change their “fundamentally flawed” approaches to resolving the dispute, peers have found.

A UK House of Lords committee set up to examine the controversial post-Brexit trading arrangements for the Irish Sea has warned that Northern Ireland could become a “permanent casualty” of Brexit unless compromise is found urgently.