The US is ready to scrap mooted plans for Joe Biden to visit the UK if Rishi Sunak fails to strike a deal with the EU on post-Brexit trade arrangements with Northern Ireland in time 🔴 Exclusive from singharj and paulwaugh
in September this year – but his attendance at the Good Friday Agreement commemorations would mark his first bilateral trip and give Mr Sunak the opportunity for face-to-face talks with his most powerful ally.on the long-running dispute over the Protocol and that it is being tested with all sides, including the DUP.
But questioned this week about reports that the UK and EU are working towards a Valentine’s Day deal to pave the way for the Northern Ireland Executive to get back up and running by Good Friday, Mr Sunak told the Commons Liaison Committee: “I’ve been clear that I haven’t put an arbitrary or strict deadline on the conversations that we are having and I don’t think that that’s necessarily helpful and I don’t want to unnecessarily raise people’s expectations of an imminent breakthrough.
“What I am committed to doing is working constructively with our European partners to see if we can find a way through this, to resolve the very clear challenges the Protocol presents to Northern Ireland’s place in the union.”
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