Britain will this week to deviate from the Brexit deal unless the European Union shows more flexibility over Northern Ireland, Reuters reports. Deviating from the deal's so-called Northern Ireland Protocol is a risky step: its aim was to prevent Brexit from disrupting the Good Friday Agreement. Read MoreBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who signed the 2020 Brexit deal, believes the protocol has imposed paperwork and checks could prevent British food staples such as sausages going to Northern Ireland. Mr Frost is due to update parliament on Wednesday about Northern Ireland and Brexit, and will also present a paper on Brexit to lawmakers. The result was the 63-page "Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland", which effectively keeps Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and having Northern Ireland apply EU customs rules at its ports.

Source: Irish Independent July 19, 2021 14:26 UTC