LONDON • The United Kingdom urged the European Union to remain “calm” in the escalating dispute over post-Brexit Northern Ireland, as the EU’s chief negotiator warned ambassadors that the negotiations aimed at avoiding an all-out trade war were going badly.
“I gently suggest that our European friends should stay calm and keep things in proportion,” the UK’s Brexit minister David Frost said in Parliament on Wednesday.
He was speaking following reports that the EU is considering terminating its free trade deal with the UK if Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government follows through on its threat to unilaterally suspend part of the post Brexit agreement on Northern Ireland.
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