UK and EU Seal ‘Decisive Breakthrough’ on Northern Ireland
- Sunak, Von der Leyen agree pact to ease cross-border barriers
- UK PM seeks backing of unionists and pro-Brexit Tory MPs
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The UK and European Union reached a new deal on Northern Ireland’s trading arrangements aimed at ending years of often acrimonious wrangling and paving the way for warmer relations more than half a decade after Britons voted for Brexit.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said negotiations had led to a change in the legal text of the Northern Ireland Protocol, a part of the UK’s divorce deal with the EU governing trade with the region.